writes our anonymous submitter: “i know carl to have done exactly what she’s saying — cheat on her and lie to the girls saying he didn’t have a girlfriend. but still, a mass email? really? i’m not even on her friends list…so did she send it to his friends?” (the “k-hole,” by the way, reportedly [...]

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one lazy sunday, when our anonymous submitter in minneapolis spotted this bit of graphity on a wooden bridge at a park, “at first i thought it was sweet in a sad kind of way,” he says. but then he kept finding more — “on benches, picnic tables, even trees, and they got progressively more insane.”
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“a few days after changing my status to single,” writes meg in red deer, alberta, “facebook proves to be the creep i always knew it was.”

(jordon is the ex-boyfriend.)

related: reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status in your facebook profile

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i’m having a hard time deciding who in this group of geniuses most deserves a smack in the head first. to make it easier, i’m going to tell myself that krystal is using some new kind of ironic dialect of homophone-swapping slang. and jennalyn…well, her name is jennalyn, and therefore i think it’s safe to [...]

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facebook’s new “i like this” feature doesn’t allow you to give “thumbs down” to your friends’ status updates or posted links — a boon to both the supportive, snap-cup-loving, kindergarten-teacher-types on your friends list and the die-hard passive-aggressives on your frenemies list!

the even bigger “ouch”?

related: reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status [...]

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so, kevin in san francisco says his friend’s roommate went on three “hang out at a bar” dates with this guy from france. after the third date — in admirably straightforward fashion — he told french guy it wasn’t wasn’t working out and he didn’t want to see him anymore. (you know, the old “it’s [...]

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our anonymous submitter in quebec says this note is posted on the door of an apartment in her building. “looks like somebody had a rough breakup,” she speculates…in which case i think dude is probably better off. still, i think the ambiguity here presents a wealth of other possible scenarios, no?

related: and all the pieces [...]

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to be honest, i find this note — from an anonymous submitter in raleigh, n.c. — to be kind of depressing. so, let me just say this: if you’ve recently broken up with a significant other and have been thinking, “hmm, maybe a heartfelt note is the way to win him/her back!”…JUST. SAY. NO.
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our anonymous submitter in pittsburgh says this note was sitting atop a copy-room filing cabinet — and a stack of 50 or so identical print-outs of the jo bros. “guess someone in the office is on team taylor swift!”

related: let’s not mince words
extra credit: taylor swift’s passive-aggressive swipe at joe jonas [youtube]

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the icing on top here, says our submitter, is the second comment — the one from billy. why? because, well, that’s the guy slade just broke up with. (adds our submitter: “awkward pretty much sums it up.”)

related: please pick up your dirty laundry asap

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today’s facebook friday submission comes from an anonymous onlooker in college park, maryland. (read from the bottom up.)

related: i challenge you to an emoticon-off!

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says our anonymous facebook user in ottawa: “it’s exactly what it looks like.”

related: in daylights? in sunsets? in midnights? in posts on facebook?

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a breakup note too long for a text message…though that might have a been more (fucking) appropriate.

related: you oughta know

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writes jaina in westport, conn.: “i dated this asshole last fall, and i dumped him because i found out that he was using his livejournal to try to bang girls on the side. i, of course, still spy on him.” or at least, she did…until her ip address gave her up.

adds jaina: “please note that [...]

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