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Is it just me or is it highly awkward when you witness peoples’ heartache on Facebook?  With a half voyeur, half indifferent attitude, my mind stores that uncomfortable piece of knowledge away in hopes that I will handle it delicately next time I run into the suffering.

Now what if you are the afflicted?  You have an option.  You know you want to stop that obsessive compulsive status checking.  But it’s just so hard when updates, pictures, tweets and feeds all remind you of the not-so-great past.  Well, rid of those reminders with http://blockyourex.com.  According to iconoculture, this is part of the Control Freak trend, in which “Consumers on the prowl for total control of environments, property, time, safety, and wellbeing” (and heart?).