Dear John....

The Dear John letter was formerly the way out of a relationship if you couldn't muster the courage to say it and as the digital world expands this is becoming outdated. According to a new survey the way to end a relationship is in the cyber world avoiding the tears and uncomfortable confrontations. Changing your status on Facebook from "in a relationship" to "single" seals the deal in ending things. It really doesn't get any more clean cut than that but does it make it right?

Over one third of 2 000 people polled (34 percent) said they had ended a relationship by email, 13 percent had changed their status on Facebook without telling their partners and six percent had released the news unilaterally on Twitter. By contrast, only two percent had broken up via a mobile phone text. The rest had split up the old-fashioned way by face-to-face conversation (38 percent) and by telephone (eight percent).

People are claiming it's an easier and more effective way and avoids any misunderstandings. What exactly is there to misunderstand? I must be honest here, this is the most disrespectful thing I've heard about in a while. I realize that each situation is dependent on circumstance but this seems a cruel way to avoid an uncomfortable situation and can cause a lot more harm than good. No one likes to break up with someone else but its an unavoidable aspect of all our lives and we have to stop for a minute and wonder how we would feel discarded before we've even realized it? Weigh your options when you're dealing with someone else's heart because it's as fragile as your own.