This undated frame grab provided by WotWentWrong.com shows the company’s home page on its website. Online dating sites and apps for hooking up on the go are abundant. But breakup tech hasn’t kept pace. The latest entrant is WotWentWrong, brand new for dumpees in search of feedback from their formers after a first date fails to produce a follow-up call or budding love dies on the vine without explanation.By LEANNE ITALIE
NEW YORK – You thought you found your one true love online, but now you’ve been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven’t helped. Your friends are tired of your whining.
Forget a pampering makeover to help heal your broken heart this Valentine’s Day. Go for a “digital breakover” instead, using a growing number of tech tools to save you from yourself or to sob on a safe shoulder in the ether.
Online dating sites and apps for hooking up on the go are abundant. Only one of the Apple app store’s recent top 12 downloads for the iPhone was about something other than romantic love, but breakup tech hasn’t kept pace.
Melissa McGlone, 46, in Alexandria, Va., turned to The Ex-App after a three-year relationship ended recently with an unceremonious text. After a weak moment or three of electronically stalking her dumper, she used the text, call and email blocker to hold his digits at bay until she could resist temptation on her own.