Hey folks, 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

you what we're bleeping, then just skip this one and save it for a really boring trip to the grocery store.

From WNYC, I'm a new summer od and this is Note to Self, the tech show about being human.

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 Poient, 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 and pages of screenshots of

these. You're going to hear some of them, some dramatic readings of them later in this episode.

But here's the thing, Jen would show me these and I felt like I didn't understand the significance,

the greater significance of texts from your ex. So she said, OK, while you're on vacation,

I'm going to interview the guy who founded it. And you're going to see,

hello, hi, how are you? The guy who started it, his name is Elon Gale. He's actually a reality

TV show producer. I learned so much listening to Elon and Jen dig deep into why people text each

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