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Several years ago, Steven May did what any heartbroken, web-savvy individual would do: he blogged. Why throw gravel at your ex-girlfriend's window, or leave groveling "Iloveyou" [sniffle] "Imissyou" [honk] "Canwepleasepleasepleasegetback— tooooo—" [voice crack] "—gether?" messages on her answering machine when you could just as easily get her attention by broadcasting your woes on the web? But May never really intended for his ex-girlfriend (and ex-girlfriend’s friends, and ex-girlfriend’s friends-of-friends) to see his post-breakup blog. Really—he just needed to get a few things off his chest. Although May’s reactions were "virtual," the ramifications of his online grievances were real; he received a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, asking him to stop blogging about their breakup. "She thought it was an invasion of her privacy," says May, "even though I never used her name, or posted her photo. But a friend of hers had directed her to something I’d written online, and she asked me to stop."