Not all humans have a good grasp on the dynamics of relationships. You’re not the only one who hasn’t got it all figured out.
MocoSpace is a start-up social network for people who want to, uh, network. Socially. It’s the same idea behind MySpace, Facebook, ConnectYou, PEOPLEONTHEINTERWEBS, or whatever else is out there right now. But that’s not the interesting thing. The interesting thing is that they did a survey on a sample of 20,000 of their 10.3 million members, and they found out that 47% of their users break up with people via the phone. Not just over the phone, over text message.
Now, I’ve had my share of terrible relationships, but I’ve never told somebody to screw off via text message. I was considering doing it right now, but it’s one of those things you just can’t fire off, you need to be a legitimate douche about it. It’s something that you have to mean and invest in. I can’t imagine actually going through with it.
This either tells us Americans who use MocoSpace are prone to handling relationships badly, or the population handles relationships badly, or people who use MocoSpace apply the same rigorous standards to their relationships as they do to their social networks.
Which are not much.
Now for an oldie, but a goodie:
Comments
Michael
February 26th, 2010 - 9:12:48 PM
This is obviously a bogus survey. Mocospace's users probably read the question as, "if you ever had a girlfriend, would you break up with her by text?"
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chris
March 1st, 2010 - 11:40:10 AM
my sister had an engagement broken up over AIM (and not during a fight either), otherwise I've never met someone who has either a.) done this or b.) had this done to them
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