Need to breakup? We've got covered.

By Brianna Foley @brifoleyy
March 3, 2016

Need to breakup? We've got it covered.

As we are departing from Valentine's Day, and the season where it just makes sense to have a certain someone, we are faced with a dilemma. How do we cut off the ties and break the persons heart that we'd been spending countless hours watching Netflix and chilling with? Well, we have a solution to this problematic situation.


There are apps and websites that get people together into a relationship and now, there is a website that will even breakup with your significant other for you. Canadian brothers, Mackenzie and Evan Keast, will happily break up with your boyfriend or girlfriend for you for just a small price to pay. Ten dollars will get you a breakup text and a whopping $29 will get you a breakup phone call. Wow! What a deal! Now if you're really wanting to end things quickly, don't worry, they have a rush service for you! So now you don't have to go through the hardest part of a relationship, you can just spend that extra cash and have the Breakup Shop do it for you.


While most may think that this is insane and heartless; the brothers feel that this is just a new way to do life. "Are we the bad guys? No, we're not," article. To some millennia’s this is a new innovation that will be the next big thing, nowadays, so many young people meet online now they can breakup online. Evan Keast stated "People say boo-hoo about 'Oh, my God, I can't believe you'd have somebody break up with somebody for you.' I know there's people in marriages that have people serve papers, and they never talk to their divorcees ever again,"

The company was founded upon one of the brother’s heartbreak. Apparently, a girl "ghosted" him and he felt that there should be a end to this. So they felt that if they created a service that eliminated the actual breaking up then there would be no reason to "ghost" someone.

So if breaking up doesn't sound like a fun thing to do, lucky for you, the Breakup Brothers will cut the ties for you! Sending a text or calling someone is so hard now a day, could you imagine having to do it to someone’s face, with this new service breakups just got a lot easier!

"Being there" or being there?

"Being there" or being there? 

How social media has changed our quality of life.

Have you recently opened your Instagram, Facebook or even Snapchat and felt as if you were somewhere else? You double tap because you see that the Braves just had a great game from your friend's post or maybe you feel like you're at the Taylor Swift concert singing Fifteen right along with twenty thousand others because you viewed multiple Snapchat stories. Maybe you find yourself feeling as if you were sitting right along 30-A from looking through Facebook status' that your family has posted. All of these things are posing the question to the person taking these pictures, posting these status' and sending these snaps; Are you there? or are you "there"?

Being fully present in the world that we live in is extremely difficult due to the buzzing device that is attached to our side and constantly fighting for our attention. This type of new media has changed the way that we attend events, spend time with family and even the way that we think about spending time with others. Do you notice yourself picking our your outfit with the hopes of a great picture to post on Instagram? Or maybe realize that when you're with your friends playing a fun game that you'll post a Snapchat video instead of actually being in the moment? Did you really go on that hike if you didn't take a picture and post it?

Technology and social media are a Catch 22. It can be such a great thing, having this unbelievable technology, but it can be detrimental to our lives. Our relationships are at top things that are negatively affected by this.

There isn't a right or wrong way to use social media. However we have become engulfed into this new media and way of communicating with others so that we are missing out on life. This type of media can take away from priceless moments that we spend with our friends and family and make it seem like being there isn't as important as "being there." We must learn how to moderate our use with this type with this type of new media to save our relationships and genuinely live life.