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'Breakup app' deletes cyber traces of ex-lovers, no fuss, no muss

SOMETIMES breaking up in real life can be easier than removing all traces of an ex-partner from your virtual life.

A free online application designed to accomplish the romantic cleanup, designed by a Chinese computer student, can remove all traces of an ex on the renren networking site, China’s answer to Facebook.

“Renren breakup app,” for Google Chrome, is becoming popular among young people who tend to display their romantic lives on social networking sites. Click on “start breakup” the honeyed words and photos of the one you ditched, or who ditched you, are removed with no fuss, no muss.

The app was the idea of Xie Mengfei, a student majoring in computer science in Wuhan University in central Hubei Province.

Xie first publicized the app on his renren account a day after last year’s Qixi Festival, known as Chinese Valentine’s Day. But it didn’t really stick until he again posted it on this year’s festival, which was Tuesday. It can be downloaded on the renren site.

“You can have an easy breakup using the app,” he wrote.

Online reports show he had invented several other apps before, including one that helps others find nearby toilets.




 

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