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  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/uPhXjtP6PNE   Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram make it nearly impossible to put a broken relationship in your past.  University of Colorado-Boulder information scientists now explore the nuances of social media flashbacks with in-depth interviews of 19 subjects experiencing online suffering after a relationship disintegration.   Facebook’s Newsfeed is a prime offender.  Even if you unfriend and block your ex, new loves, new digs, and new victories may still hit you in the face from other linkages in your social network.  Then, mysterious eerie techno-burps repost bygone echoes from your ex.   Your defenses include unfriending, untagging, using Facebook’s Take-A-Break feature, setting up new accounts, and going cold turkey for awhile.    Anthony T. Pinter, Jialun Aaron Jiang, Katie Z. Gach, Melanie M. Sidwell, James E. Dykes, Jed R. Brubaker. "Am I Never Going to Be Free of All This Crap?". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019; 3 (CSCW): 1 DOI: 10.1145/3359172