Tag: DATING

In the saddest news we've heard today (which means it's been a relatively good day), 440 people have enrolled in a master's course, held at Potsdam University in Germany, that instructs students in how to be flirtatious via text message and e-mail, how to impress acquaintances and how to deal with that girl who will inevitably text back, "uhhh NO, perv." The course's instructor, Philip von ...

Share As the Swedes of yore so sagaciously proclaimed, "Breaking up is never easy, I know, but I have to go." Those perky blondes were right. The untangling of lives, from reclaiming your teenaged Liz Phair shirt to changing your relationship status on Facebook, is no walk in the park. Adding to the torment and heartache comes a whole new digital terrain, wherein once-friendly Twitter feeds ...

Crowd-sourcing your dating life as a last means hope of finding that special someone is, well, desperate. But who are we to criticize a chosen path to love? Earlier this week, a 23-year-old New Yorker named Brian became a hit on the Web because he let the Internet pick his partner. Part of his internship at advertising agency BBH required him to "make something, anything famous," his tweet to ...

Texting has made it easy for people to instantly contact each other, and, for teenagers especially, has become the primary means of telecommunication. This convenience, however, has also made it all too easy for disgruntled exes, overprotective boyfriends and psychologically unstable lovers to passively keep track of their significant others. When a relationship hits a patch of turbulence or a ...

A few week's ago, as ridiculous as it sounds, we told you about a place on the Web for Apple fanboys and girls to find love. According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Cupidtino, a dating site created solely for Mac users, recently moved into open beta testing for the public. Now anybody that owns an Apple product can visit the site, create a profile (which includes adding photos and a list ...

Online dating, in theory, is supposed to make romance easy. It's always been perceived as a convenient means by which shy singles or busy professionals could meet people without having to go through the hassle and stress of actually meeting people. In today's hyper-connected age of chaos, though, even browsing through profiles and clicking a mouse is too much to ask of an online citizen weaned on ...

You may spend your spare time surfing the Web, hanging out with friends, or playing ultimate frisbee. Mark Zuckerberg spends his down time predicting who you're gonna hook up with next. That's right. Your romantic life is Zuckerberg's leisure. In the forthcoming book 'The Facebook Effect,' Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick delves into the psyche of the Facebook CEO. And based on early ...

You might remember in January that we shared with you a little study from the nerds behind OkCupid. The goal of the research was to determine what the characteristics of successful profile photos were (one of the most popular entries on the site's official blog). So, as a follow up, OkCupid has launched MyBestFace, a tool that allows you to upload photos of yourself to determine which one is the ...

Maybe we haven't had enough coffee today, or maybe we're already pissed because we hear that 'The Dark Crystal' is getting re-made, but the Switched Rage Meter is about to burst over this one: Cupidtino, the dating site for Apple fanboys and girls. Don't get us wrong. We're not opposed to online dating or Apple fandom. But the seemingly sinister mix of the two makes us feel just a bit queasy. ...

No one ever said being in college was easy. What with the demands of drinking, drugs, and the occasional exam, the average 20-something faces a schedule jam packed with rigorous activity. Luckily, though, a new site can help students save time when it comes to at least one major item on the syllabus: hooking up. Created by Josh Weinstein, GoodCrush is a dating service exclusively aimed at ...

Share For those of us more comfortable with our PDAs than with public displays of affection, it can be difficult to meet people while hiding behind an LCD screen. However, striking up conversations with strangers is easy enough while online, and dating service Flitter attempts to marry the comfort of the computer screen with the immediacy of being able to buy someone a drink (if things go ...

Gay and lesbian couples may not be able to get married in the vast majority of the US, but now they can at least enjoy equal online flirtation rights, thanks to a recent class-action settlement between eHarmony and about 150 Californian users. As The Associated Press reports, eHarmony has agreed to merge its gay and straight sites in an attempt to settle a recent lawsuit from users who found ...

Share When trying to attract future romantic partners, colorful adornments and displays of athletic prowess tend to be the accepted and expected methods for animals and people, alike. Those practices definitely materialize on the Web, and the most effective way to demonstrate that readiness to mate may just be the social networking profile photo. Some stat geek sociologists over at the online ...

There is plenty of undue pressure out there (particularly on women) to be, not just attractive, but beautiful. Social network and dating site, BeautifulPeople.com takes this absurd, and rather shameful truth, and has turned it into a professed business practice. Members are only allowed to join after they've passed a screening process, in which existing users vote on whether or not they're ...

Last week, we told you about a new video game called 'Love Plus' that has swept Japanese men off their feet. The Nintendo DS game allows men to court and woo an array of virtual women. If they're lucky, the pretend players even get to "kiss" them. Well, one guy was apparently so, um, successful at it, that he has now decided to wed his 2-D girlfriend. The man, known only as Sal9000, tied the ...