This is just something I am interested in, not for personal reasons at all. I have seen some of my friends go through break-ups recently and have wondered what the best way to handle this is.

So you are in a relationship with someone and during that time you get lots of photos on facebook with you and your partner tagged in them. In loving embraces etc etc.

Then you break up.

Do you remove or un-tag yourself from those photos?

Is  it awkward to know that your next girlfriend/boyfriend-to-be is going to see all those photos of you seemingly totally in love with someone else? And also, is it painful to have such easy access to see all those photos yourself and re-surface all those possibly painful memories?

Pre-facebook days, you would have taken all the photos of you and your partner out of their frames and put them in a shoebox or something. So that they are hidden from future partners, and hidden from your tender heart.

What did you do in this situation? Or what would you do?

Tags: facebook