Would you block your ex on social media?

After the breakup, do you block your ex on social media? Some people may call it petty or a way of dealing with a breakup. 

A prime example is The Weekend and girlfriend Selena Gomez breaking up. Us Weekly reported that soon after the news broke that the couple of 10 months split, the “Starboy” singer blocked Gomez’s family members, friends, her team, and fan accounts dedicated to the couple. He also deleted a majority of photos he had of her on his accounts. And while we speculated about whether he was big mad or little mad, we could both agree that based on the fact that she’d already been seen out with her ex, Justin Bieber, he had the right to block whomever he wanted to.

While some people might do it for petty reasons (to try and send you the message that you’ve been unceremoniously dismissed), blocking for many people is simply an act of self-care. We don’t need to relive the pain of a breakup every time we log into our social media accounts, and just as I wouldn’t go out looking for my ex in everyday life after we’d chosen to move on from one another, I don’t want to look for you online. I don’t want to see the ways in which you’ve moved on and seem unaffected. I don’t want to drive myself crazy.

That doesn’t mean the urge to look our exes up doesn’t come and go, but that’s the reason going the blocking route isn’t such a bad idea.