the internet is definitely tough on relationships and breakups in the sense that it's a lot more difficult to maintain any semblance of privacy, especially with the amount of social networking sites on the internet that make it nigh-impossible to not know exactly what your friends are doing and who they are doing it with at all times. i've had difficulties a few times with relationships, even just the casual dating kind, because when you're not with the person it's so easy to get into their life and see exactly who they are hanging out with and what their friends are saying to them and about them and what they are saying back to their friends and photos of them with other girls and all these little petty things that in enough volume can make anyone act really jealous and stupid. even though everyone is aware that these things happen after a relationship ends, there's a big difference between filling in the gaps in your mind and actually having to see those filled-in gaps in full detail on a daily basis. it used to be easier before social networking sites existed to just grant your partner or ex-partner the privacy to do whatever they wanted with their free time when you're not around and enjoy being deliberately ignorant, now it's a little bit harder because social networking sites make everyone's business into your business in the sense that it's often very public and almost impossible not to know about.