When my boyfriend became my ex-boyfriend, I did not acknowledge our break-up online. This was fairly easy to do given that so little of our relationship had been posted for public consumption. His mom had tagged me in some pictures on Facebook; I think I Tweeted a funny thing he had said a few times. It’s not that we were one of those couples who took pride in being intentionally offline. It just never occurred to me to document our life together.
Maybe you are thinking that sounds like a red flag. But this was seven years ago, just before the dawn of there being essentially no choice but to exist almost entirely on your phone. And besides, for the majority of our relationship, I had a fake BlackBerry,
