Note to Self

The Thing About Texts From Your Ex

<p>If you're not one of <a href="https://instagram.com/textsfromyourex/" target="_blank">Text From Your Ex's</a> 1.9 million followers already, here's what you need to know: Elan Gale's brainchild is an Instagram account with pages and pages of awkwardness captured in screenshots. It turns out, reading through hundreds of thousands of other people's emotionally loaded conversations gives you some pretty profound insight into relationships, technology, and privacy (or rather... the utter lack thereof).</p>
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