数字时代的恋爱指南：分手了照片短信怎么办？

Emails can be as banal and brief as any text message, but there are plenty of exceptions: long ones penned while abroad, or traveling, mail with attachments, breakup letters, I Miss You letters. Rather than sift through everything, archive it all. Do a search for his or her email, select all, and pack it away into a folder. Remember: this email is part of your life history. It includes details you won't remember by the time you're long over the breakup, and you'll be grateful for them.
电子邮件有时候就跟手机短信一样乏味而简洁，不过也有例外：比如出国或旅游时写的长邮件、带附件的邮件、以及分手信和思念信。与其筛遍所有邮件，不如全部归档。然后把和ta有关的邮件找出来，全选并放到一个专属文件夹。记住：邮件也是你的生活记录。它们包含了那些你在分手很久以后会忘记的细节，而到时候你会庆幸自己保留了它们。

Texts
手机短信

Delete—this is just an invitation to wallow and/or leap back into ill-advised contact. Both are bad for you.
删了吧。这些短信只会让你沉溺于悲伤或诱使你去联系那个不该再联系的人。无论怎样都对你没好处。

Facebook tags
Facebook的圈人标记

Again, an opportunity to wallow, a web browser shortcut to melancholy. And who wants a future prospect to see a bunch of pictures with your ex?
这个也是诱使你沉溺于往事的坏东西，而且还是个浏览器的捷径。任何希望有个光明未来的人都不会想看到一堆自己和ex的合影的！

There should be a pattern emerging here. It's difficult, but you need to discern what baggage is going to be useful even after all the heavy, horrible, hurtful emotions wear off. What are the bytes that'll have significance on their own, without the love connection? What stuff will remind you about your life in some broader sense than a relationship that occupied some months or years of it? What'll be that GIF or TXT you wish to hell you hadn't erased, because who knows what it might've reminded you of about the way you used to be?
但要懂得区分。尽管这很难，但你需要分辨出那些在你消化掉沉重、恐惧和心碎感后，仍能带来作用的东西。哪些是抹去爱情痕迹后依旧意义重大的照片？哪些是能体现你生命印记而非仅仅记录你爱情长跑的照片？哪些是你删除以后必定会后悔的东西？无论是gif还是txt格式的东西，它们之中总有些能唤醒你对过去的记忆。

Those things deserve backup. The rest was just noise all along.
这些东西值得备份。其他的都只是浮云。