It's been a tough few last months in your relationship. Her voice went from being a honey throated vixen to grating fingernails on a blackboard. The flower of love has wilted. Now it's time to end it, but how‾ According to Reuters, if you are a modern lover like one in seven 18- to 24-year-olds you text message or email the bad news. Though impersonal, it beats the 4% who end all communication without notice. Rob Barnes from moneysupermarket.com, the sponsor of the survey said, 'Most of us send emails and texts everyday, so it comes as no surprise they are now being used to ditch someone - however distasteful this is.' Even worse might be being publicly dumped. Barnes again: 'The results show 1% of the population would use a social networking site to dump a partner.' Text ditching received prominence when it was revealed that Kevin Federline was given news of his divorce from Britney Spears via text message while he was filming a television show. He joins the 15% of those surveyed who had been jilted electronically.
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