What better way to say “I don't love you anymore” then by telling your social network before telling your mate? That's what many on-liners are doing now, either by changing ones Facebook status to single without informing ones partner, tweeting to all that the break-up is eminent or posting ones status change all over your blog.

DateTheUK's survey indicates that over one third of 2,000 people polled, 34% said they had ended a relationship by email, 13 had changed their Facebook status without telling their partner and some 6% had sent notice on Twitter. A small 2% had broken up via texting.

 

For those that remain? They had to break-up old-school, either by face-to-face (38%) or by telephone (8%). "Digital Dumping will soon take over when it comes to ending a relationship," said Sean Wood, the Marketing Manager for DateTheUK.

I read an article in the newspaper this morning regarding persons who have fallen into swimming pools or other areas of water, and remained under water long enough to be life threatening or possibly fatal.

We cheer whenever we see the recovered party being worked on by medics, suddenly began coughing, spitting and sometimes crying, indicating they were one of the lucky ones to be brought back to the state of living. If that could only be true but alas, in reality only a very few can lay claim to being returned to the point of where they had died, so as to continue on with their lives as if nothing had ever happened.

IM at the workplace seems silly, doesn’t it?

Many people use Instant Messaging of some form at work. It helps break up the boredom of an otherwise laborious day at the office place. Instant Messaging, IM, ICQ, pinging or whatever you want to call it has become a part of our daily lives.

I work at a company that has open seating cubicles. The only separation between me and my coworkers is a small cubicle wall that extends a mere foot above the desk. We all can easily look around at each other during the day and easily converse if need be. Yet all of us use IM to chat with the person sitting next to us. There’s nothing like seeing one coworker send a message to another and then look to see what that persons physical response will be. I watch individuals send a message and then quickly look to the recipient to catch their reaction. Seems kind of silly, doesn’t it?

Well, I suppose it was even funnier in the days before IM where we used to call each other on the phone rather than chatting over the cubicle wall. Lunch would roll around and the guy in the next cube would call to see if I was ready to go to lunch.

Long gone are the days when coworkers would actually gather around the water cooler and exchange some witty banter. Now its fingers flying fast and furiously, attempting to get that zinger sent off before your coworker has a chance to respond.