U R Dumped

foo points to a news story about the use of text messaging in Britain as a means of ending romantic relationships (aka dumping your mate). As the clip notes:

Nearly one in 10 Britons admit to dumping their partner by cellphone text message rather than breaking the news face-to-face, according to a survey.

While a third of those polled said they had had an argument by text, nearly half admitted flirting by cellphone message.

Of the 771 Britons aged over 15 polled by market research firm NOP for Swiss software company Sicap, 38 percent confessed to reading their partner's private messages.

Source: UK Reuters, "Brits send "U R dumped" txt msgs"

This really seems inevitable considering a while back stories were cropping up about the e-mail breakups. Heck, I've even done it myself :)