Digital romance: How teen boys and girls differ
Thanks to texting and social media, teens today have many more ways to reach out to a crush than in the analog days of using the family telephone and passing notes in the hallways.
But according to a recent Pew Research Center 
Post-breakup, girls are more likely to erase their ex from their social media lives. Some 44% of teen girls with dating experience have blocked or unfriended an ex on social media, compared with 31% of boys. Girls who date (46%) are also more likely than boys (30%) to delete or untag photos from a previous relationship.
In explaining why she would delete photos of a former beau, one high school girl in a Pew Research focus group last year put it this way: If she's bitter about the relationship ending, “I'm erasing you from my life.”
By and large, teen boys and girls tend to use the same methods to keep in touch, and they share similar expectations for how often they'd like to hear from their partner. The one slight difference is in frequency of texting. Texting is by far the most common means for all teen daters to communicate with their romantic partner, but girls use texting more frequently than boys: 79% of girls say they spend time texting their partner daily, compared with 66% of boys.
