Breakup Shop Breaking up with someone is almost as difficult as finding a date. So hard that things like “ghosting” have become the easier (and least respectable) way to let a person know it’s over. While online dating apps and sites like Tinder and OKCupid are designed to help singles find dates — and sometimes life partners — it’s up to you to figure out the nicest way to let your partner know when you don’t want to be with him or her more.
Fortunately for those who just can’t handle it alone, services like The Breakup Shop aim to take the complexities out of leaving your once significant other. According to Motherboard’s Emanuel Maiberg, you can hire The Breakup Shop to handle the entire process for you. Termination emails and texts are $10; a customized termination letter costs $30 and termination phone calls start at $29. It seems like a pretty cheap way to avoid the painful termination process, but since the service is fairly new, there are some rough edges.
Services that offer you electronic termination are not entirely new. Over the past few years, others have tried to find a way to deal with the sometimes ugliest part of the relationship without making it clear that someone actually paid them to do their dirty work. The BreakupText app can send the text for you, but it was originally meant to be a joke. In fact, according to Business News Daily, the creators were so sick of the app’s impact on people’s lives that they created MakeupText.
There are also apps and services available that try to help post-breakup survivors. KillSwitch, for example, helps you see your ex’s tagged photos and Facebook posts by identifying the ex and the types of photos and statuses you no longer want to see, then previewing and hiding everything. A number of platforms provide options to resell and dispose of gifts you don’t want to keep, and there are apps that prevent you from the awkward act of drunkenly calling your ex and sobbing into his voicemail.
Most breakup apps include features that still need some refinement, especially when it comes to dealing with the emotions associated with breakups. . For example, The Breakup Shop’s phone call basically ends with an invitation to visit the gift shop on the site, “we have a really great gift shop for people who have just been left,” which could very well be worse than any other breakup option available, ghosts included.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn