Unfollow? Block? And who gets custody of the WhatsApp groups? How to break up in the digital age

Social media has made finding love easier, but ending relationships even messier. Here's how to finish things online without losing your mind

When I was 16, back in 2009, I got my first boyfriend. The whirlwind romance began unexpectedly after a school trip and a few too many shots of cheap vodka. (Thankfully, the relationship outlasted the hangover.)

Until this point, I had watched from the sidelines as my friends' doomed teen romances played out on MSN Messenger. Here, a sign of true love was adding a significant other's initials to your screen name. Adding a crush to your MSN name was a Very Big Deal and when it, inevitably, fell apart, it would be dramatically replaced with a broken heart or some sad song lyrics.