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"After entering the public eye while a contestant on America&amp;#x27;s Next Top Model, Kim Stolz went on to do many things&amp;amp;mdash;including writing a book about relationships. Unfriending My Ex: And Other Things I&amp;#x27;ll Never Do is about a topic we&amp;#x27;re all familiar with here on Smitten: how technology makes relationships way more complicated. And despite what the title implies, Stolz says unfriending your ex is actually a Do. Here, she shares her five dos and don&amp;#x27;ts for keeping technology from ruining your relationships: DO: 1. Do put your phone away on dates, during fights, and when someone tells you they love you for the first time. You will probably ruin the moment otherwise. 2. Do unfriend and stop following your exes. Social media creates an indelibility in relationships. If you expect to start a new relationship, you have to end your old one. And if you&amp;amp;#8217;re 99 percent of us, you can&amp;amp;#8217;t end your old one unless you unfriend, unfollow, and move on. 3. Do consider replacing the names of exes that you can&amp;amp;#8217;t seem to quite over in your phone as &amp;amp;#8220;no&amp;amp;#8221; or &amp;amp;#8220;stop&amp;amp;#8221; to avoid late-night and inebriated texts you might regret. 4. Do ask your friends to unfriend your exes as well. Otherwise, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll spend every week (month) after a breakup drilling your friends for details on your significant others who you no longer have access to. 5. Do &amp;amp;#8220;like&amp;amp;#8221; your significant other&amp;amp;#8217;s Instagram posts once in a while, even if you think they&amp;amp;#8217;re lame. The resentment when it comes to ignorance on social media is animalistic. It will only bite you in the end. DON&amp;#x27;T: 1. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t turn your Instagram into a constant feed of drunken selfies as an attempt to boost your self-esteem and make your significant other jealous. You will find that you get less &amp;amp;#8220;likes&amp;amp;#8221; than ever and your self-esteem will be lower than you&amp;amp;#8217;ve known it to be. You will also probably be broken up with. 2. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t friend or follow your significant other&amp;amp;#8217;s exes. How embarrassing. 3. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t look at your significant other&amp;amp;#8217;s phone when they get a text to see who it&amp;amp;#8217;s from. You look crazy when you do this. Resist the urge. 4. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t rename your exes in your phone different names so that you can text them without your significant others knowing. Soon enough, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll be sleeping with them. 5. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t text (or sext) your ex and then apologize in the morning and claim you sent it to the wrong person. You&amp;amp;#8217;re only half as clever as you think you are. It&amp;amp;#8217;s transparent. Just own it and move on. What do you think of these tips? Agree or disagree."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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