It used to be like this: throw away your phone number, cut up photos, dispose of souvenirs, a few weeks of lovesickness – that’s it. But since the Internet and the possibility of e.g. A US study shows that when people digitize music, photos or videos, share them with others and save them on any number of devices, the end of a love affair is becoming more and more of an agonizing gauntlet.
According to the researchers, the abandoned person constantly encounters “digital traces” and can use them, e.g. B. on Facebook do not delete completely. According to the study, anyone who tries anyway regrets it all the more the fresher the separation is. Advice from the researchers: At least have all freely accessible mementos automatically put together in a computer folder by a neutral person or a search program and only destroyed when you have enough distance.
