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Dumped By Mobile SMS
When it comes to hi-tech breakups, women are more ruthless than men and they’re using their mobiles like never before to take charge of the dating game. A survey of dating habits by 3 Mobile and dating website RSVP found 36 per cent of women have used texting, email or chat sites to break up with someone, compared to only 24 per cent of men.
And 18 per cent of women have actually texted their beaus a break-up
message, compared to 12 per cent of guys. Anna Saunders, general manager of Fast Impressions Speed Dating, said the use of electronic communication to break up was appalling. “There’s all this new technology that’s supposed to enhance our communication but it’s the contrary,” she said. “Breaking up with someone should be face-to-face.”
Fifty-eight per cent of men and 46 per cent of women agreed, preferring a face-to-face break-up. About 60 per cent of men and women relied on electronic communication as the “safer option” to contact their dates, shunning phone calls. “It’s another barrier you can hide behind before the person bites back,” Saunders said. “A lot of it is probably a symptom of our society. We’re time poor.”
She said text messaging was addictive, although a phone call was probably more efficient. “It’s the lure of the beep beep on your phone and if you start a conversation by text, it becomes harder to pick up the phone.”Saunders said technology was effective only if it was not abused. “When it becomes the main method of contact, the replacement for human contact, then there’s an issue.”
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