Break-ups after being actively involved on social media together is very painful. Because we live in a city, we manage to give each other space, but online - even though we have temporarily (I hope) unfriended each other - we still see each other online through mutual friends all the time. On one social media platform, someone I was showing a little interest in suggested I remove the photos of my ex and I because it looked so much like I was unavailable. I thought about moving... but like what I think you are saying here... my social media would follow me no matter where I lived.

I love this insight. I hadn't thought of it this way at all. I have muted people I feel obligated to follow - a few high school friends and a family member or two. I feel "silenced" by their political voice. And so I am "silencing" them. Hmmm, I need to think more about this.