Thankfully for me, my last Boyfriend—with a capital B— doesn’t have social media , which is both maddening and ideal. check an ex’s social media) can be surprisingly hard. We may also be looking for reassurance, comparing our breakup progress, or trying to answer emotional questions social media can’t reliably answer. Unfortunately, “social media is not a good way of gauging whether or not somebody has moved on from you,” she says. Social media gives you just enough information to speculate wildly and nowhere near enough to know what’s actually happening.