Hello, note to self listener. It is your host, Manouche. And the reason you're hearing

this is because I'm on vacation. Which means that what you're about to hear is an

encore episode of Note to Self, a nice way of saying it's a repeat. But hey, we only

re-release our absolute favorites. So please enjoy this episode again, or maybe enjoy it

for the very first time if you're new to the show. And while you're here, please subscribe

to Note to Self, because we'll be back with something brand new really soon.

From WNYC, I'm Manouche Somorodi, and this is Note to Self, the tech show about being

human. We get a little salty in this episode. We do lots of bleeping, but if you don't

feel like explaining to the little person next to you what we're bleeping, then just

give this one and save it for a really boring trip to the grocery store.

I like knowing if it's going to rain today. I like being able to find out right away what

the origin of the word angst is. No cell phone, no radio, just me and my thoughts. I'm just

going to put it out there. I'm a mother of two. I've been married for 10 years. And so

I can talk about apps like OKCupid or Snapchat or Instagram feeds like Tinder Nightmares,

but I don't actually use them myself. And yet, I totally recognize that apps like this

and accounts like this are completely changing the way that people meet. How they create their

relationships, whether or not they stay together, what happens when they don't stay together.

And that I think is really worth the conversation. But it's not going to be me having the conversation

today. My producer, Jen Point, you met her a few episodes ago. She's been telling me about

this hilarious feed on Instagram that she absolutely loves and she'll like show it to

me every once in a while while we're walking down the hall. It's called texts from your

ex. So these are real text messages between exes. If you've never seen it, it's just pages

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