A man’s tech data is garnering attention after it proved heartbreak isn’t just a feeling, but a physical experience.
Koby Soto typically wears his Fitbit Charge HR every day.
It tracks his footsteps, heart rate and burned calories.
But one night, it caught something a little different.
Soto was preparing for his boyfriend to come over when he received a phone call from his partner.
"He said that we're going to have to cancel, and I said 'Why?' and he said, 'Things are not working as they should,'" Soto tells Buzzfeed News.
“I said, ‘Are you serious? You’re doing this over the phone?’” he went on.
That night, Soto was chatting on the phone with a friend who was trying to get him relax.
Obviously upset, Soto turned to his Fitbit tracker app in an effort to show his friend how agitated he was.
Surprisingly, Soto something different in the data: his moment of heartbreak.
Buzzfeed News explains:
"The app displayed data for the entire day — starting in the morning, when his average resting heart rate was a calm 72 beats per minute, and from noon onwards, when the call came and his heart rate immediately climbed past 88. It was elevated for most of the afternoon, at one point nearly reaching 118, and finally dipped back to normal levels at night."
The visual gave Soto some comfort he explains, “I feel like it’s nice to have a log of your confirmation of what you felt. You can tell people you have heartbreak and you feel bad.”
He continues, “people become less cynical once you show them the numbers or once you show the data or graphs. Everyone understands heartbreak, right? Everyone’s felt it. When you have this, it’s interesting — you have something to show.”
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