That Rebound Show

In my days (I am *famzing* old woman now), revenge relationships  were handled differently.
We broke up with relationships or marriages, mourned in silence for a while.
Get into another.
The 'most in-you-face-ex'! show off we did then was walk around for days with the new boyfriend hoping for the ex to hear by word of mouth from his friends or family.

Things are different now, thanks to social media.

To get a recent ex jealous for loosing the fabulousity* that is the social media lad these days, he/she gets a new boy toy/ girl toy as soon as the ex thing is official, come on facebook/twitter/Instagram with the photos and the poetry the minute their lips locks, and yes, he/she must tell the world when the next lip-lock-round is coming up too. Write the taunting messages of how this new relationship best they've ever had.
They play out their silliness to the public hoping to get ONE person jealous till it all fades, then, write the obituary of their dead-yet-again relationship with the rebound, for the public to read.
Again.

A good percentage of people that will read this has done this once or twice. I am probably the queen of this as well although I don't remember (now). Forgive me. This brave new world corrupts even the old at heart, like me.

It is hard to see the things we do and analyse just how stupid we look to the rational bystander sometimes ...

But how much of this rebound show is fair to the rebound girl/boy though? How do they feel when they realize they are mere tools in the hands of a probably bitter woman/man out to show off or use him/her as bait to someone else? Do they realize this at all?
Are we being fair to them? To the public we subject to pick through our rot and stink?