To Post or Not to Post?

Is it acceptable to post your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend’s picture/s on your Facebook, Myspace, or any other social networking profile?

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Love says:

I would say, YES and NO.

Yes. I think it’s OK to have some photos of him/her in your profile given the following conditions:

• You and you’re ex have agreed to remain friends and you have no hard feelings against each other.
• The photos posted in your site look “friendly.” It’s alright to post them if the photos there were taken when you still weren’t together-together (you know what I mean).
• You didn’t put your photos with him/her in just one album.
• It’s not only the two of you in each picture. That would probably give a wrong signal to everyone who views your album.

No. If that person did hurt you on purpose and left you crying, it’s better not to leave traces of him/her in your profile…most especially in the form of pictures. This would only lead you into remembering him/her more when you’re supposed to be keeping yourself busy with other things so that you won’t be left alone thinking about your moments together.

To me, deleting everything that has to do with your ex is already a good first step to moving on. Look at it as a new beginning, a clean slate. 

Instead of absent-mindedly looking at your pictures together in your social networking profile, why not replace those photos with pictures of yourself enjoying a day at the spa, eating-out with friends – pictures that show you are happy being single.

Think about it.

 xoxo

Hate says:

God's sake..............NO!

Why would you post pictures of your EX, btw? Your ex will only think that you are still “head-over-heels and like a slave-worshiping-a-king” in love with him/her. Are you out of your mind?

Do I hear you whining, “But I’m really over him!!! I don’t mind posting this and it’s just to remember our beautiful memories together”? Sweetie, I know you are better than that. It only makes you look stupid, very very very stupid. Your picture together only reminds you that something so sweet and perfect can turn into something that's bitter and broken. It shows the proof to the whole world how not a material BF/GF you could be.     

Don’t keep anything that deals with the EX, it is “the past” [Oh, if you have a kid, keep it… the kid!] and that’s enough reason to delete him/her in your life. It time to truly MOVE ON sweetie.

Wait!!! Why would you want the whole world to see something that has ended and that is in the past? Why not post some hot pictures of yourself [because you bloomed so much after him/her], the places you go [that he/she can’t go because of not enough money], the cool people around you [because, in lay man’s term, he/she’s a jerk] and the new memories you have [he/she won’t be even in dreams]?

Are you deleting it now? Very Good!

And hey, don’t just delete it on Facebook, Myspace or any other social network site; delete your EX in your life.

PS: It’s acceptable to post your EX’s picture if he/she is already dead. HAHAHA!

Always,