{"id":661778,"date":"2010-02-11T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5469611"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:49:13","slug":"survey-shows-half-of-phone-break-ups-are-texted-bad-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661778","title":{"rendered":"Survey Shows Half of Phone Break-Ups Are Texted [Bad Valentine]"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s an admittedly small sample size from a start-up social network, but even so: that’s ice cold. MocoSpace<\/a> surveyed 20,000 of its 10.3 million members, and found that SMS is the weapon of choice for 47% of phone break-ups.<\/p>\n

Other disheartening statistics gleaned from the study: a third of MocoSpace users have used their phone to flirt with someone else while on a date, and 57% have used their phone to end a relationship.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what that says about the state of American Dating, but I do think the moral of the story is don’t get too close to a MocoSpace user. They’ll chew you up and spit you out in 160 characters or less. [TechCrunch<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\nBad Valentine<\/a> is our own special take on the beauty—and awkwardness—of geek love.<\/i><\/p>\n



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It’s an admittedly small sample size from a start-up social network, but even so: that’s ice cold. MocoSpace surveyed 20,000 of its 10.3 million members, and found that SMS is the weapon of choice for 47% of phone break-ups. Other disheartening statistics gleaned from the study: a third of MocoSpace users have used their phone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2M9Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}