For a man whose name sounds a bit like an instant soup, Linton Weeks is an excellent writer of the break up story.
First, there was a story on Feb. 13 about the brand new ways to break up with your lover by using technology. All the usual suspects are there – short and not-so-sweet Twitter messages, Facebook statuses, video – as well as some more obscure ones, like cell phone ringtones. (It’s entirely possible that Matthew has tried to break up with a girl via ringtone. For the longest, his phone rang “96 Tears” when his girlfriend called in college.)
Next, Weeks suggested that people are starting to break up with the very technologies they used to rid themselves of past relationships. He’s even made a handy little Kuble-Ross model for the life stages of our relationships with technology. Apparently, just like our real partners, social networks have to keep changing with us, or we get bored and the relationship starts to suck.
Most recently, Weeks has provided a story on the economy’s abusive relationship with America’s newspapers. Though the article is informative and sounds a little different than all of the other stories on the subject, there is sadly no Kubler-Ross model with this one.
I checked Weeks’ bio, and it says he’s a native of Tennessee and a graduate of Rhodes College (right here in Memphis).
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