Websites let you blast your ex for all the world to see

BALTIMORE - We've all been there; broken hearted and ready to tell the world all the things our ex has done wrong.

Well, now you can thanks to websites that let you dish on your past relationships, leaving plenty of digital dirt at your disposal.

In the game of love there are no rules. And as you shuffle the deck searching for your king or queen, sometimes you've got to play dirty, and show the hand of people who've played you.

These days that means taking to the internet to expose an ex who did you wrong. Baltimore-based relationship expert LaDawn Black understands why, "We all want to feel better after a breakup. We all want to scream to the hills about what this person did."

Now thanks to sites like www.dontdatehimgirl.com or www.Cheaterville.com, you can scream loudly enough for the whole world to hear.

Scorned lovers on these websites claim their exes were deadbeats, liars, cheaters and even suppliers of the occasional STD.

There's no doubt on these sites, you don't hold back. But should you? We decided to split the sexes to ask, going to the places you let your hair down and get honest, your hair stylist.

At the Quintessential Gentleman in downtown Baltimore, we polled the gentlemen to get their take on airing your dirty laundry digitally.

Client Brandon Flohr isn't on Don't Date Him's message board as far as we can see. But he and other guys here were shocked to see who was and what was said, with guys being blasted by name.

Posts even included the city where the exes live and where they work.

Flohr says, “It doesn't really surprise me at all to be honest with you. In this day and age, people like to throw people under the bus."

Another client told us, “Some of this can definitely go too far, especially if you go into personal things and you don't have the other side of the story."

For the woman's side of this story, we hit Salon Laurie in Mount Washington, where Jeanette Garcia looked at the websites and told us, “Gosh, that's pretty funny.”

We had ladies like Jeanette take a look at what scorned lovers are posting. Laurie Sweet gets the point about putting your ex on blast, but when the posts are this mean, she thinks you'll regret it.

Sweet explains, “Maybe vent to your friends, yell, scream, burn a picture, go have a girl's night. You should give yourself 24-48 hours maybe a week to cool off."

And when it comes to hot tempers that fuel this kind of online fury, we wondered who's more likely to let it all out publically, men or women?

We asked that relationship expert, LaDawn Black. She says, "This is definitely more of a woman's thing, of us wanting to protect other women, us wanting to let men know we know what they're up to and we're going to let the world know what they're up to."

People are letting everyone know by broadcasting it, bullhorn style, on the web. Cheaterville’s founder James McGibney believes he knows why, "It's somewhat therapeutic for some people."

And it’s entertaining for the rest of us who get to read into relationships, hoping that if you play your cards right, you won't end up with a joker who breaks your heart.