Tag: LOVE

Sometimes, when it comes to whirlwind romances and soul mates, when you know, you just know. But every now and then, potential love needs some help, a type of sign, like, say, uniting a couple with the same name. Everyone on Facebook has searched for themselves to see if they can find anyone else with the same name. But for the Kelly Hildebrandts, that search led to a love connection. A guy ...

Rejection is a cold, hard fact of life. When it comes to dating, everyone's going to get dissed a time or two. While it's never fun, we here at Switched have found that keeping our heads up and moving forward (and watching a few rocket explosion videos on YouTube) works best. However, some folks, like New Yorker Sean McGinn, do not share our enthusiasm for 'getting over it.' McGinn says ...

A New York couple will soon take the term "destination wedding" to another level. On June 20th, New York couple Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan will marry 36,000 feet in the air aboard a Boeing 727 that simulates weightlessness, according to the Telegraph. The flight will depart from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Richard Garriott, a space tourist and son of an astronaut, will preside over the ...

Welcome to the 21st century, where love knows no limits -- thanks to photo-sharing Web sites, that is. According to a profile in the Telegraph, aspiring British photographer Rosie Hardy met North Carolinian Aaron Nance, her professional photo retoucher boyfriend, through Flickr, where both participated in the Flickr 365 Days project. Piquing each other's interest via the shared photo pool, ...

We know that people can get pretty heated up about their cell phones. Users of Apple's iPhone, in particular, have a tendency to get a little defensive if someone slights their choice of handset. But, apparently, that's not what led to a man and a woman throwing rocks at each other in a dispute that centered on a missing mobile. A disturbance was reported at a Cleveland, Ohio area Days Inn back ...

We may have thought it was awkward, or even silly, when sites like Match.com, Dating Direct, and eHarmony first launched, but guess what? They work. According to a study conducted by consumer group Which?, one in five people who've used dating sites have gone on to marry someone they met online. Furthermore, more than half of the 1,504 people surveyed had been on a date with someone they met ...

We're beginning to feel a little inadequate here. We've got another elaborate geeky marriage proposal that has us hoping our significant others aren't reading our Web site. Bryan Haggerty, a user interface designer at professional social networking site LinkedIn, proposed to his girlfriend Jeannie Choe using a custom-built iPhone Web app. The app, called 'Romantech,' led Choe on a scavenger ...

Breaking up via text message is becoming routine. We don't like it one bit, but it's a fact. MocoSpace, a mobile social network, conducted a poll of 10,000 users about their social habits, like networking and dating. They found some interesting -- and possibly disturbing -- trends emerging in the world of mobile love/lust. Here are some of the hard statistics, courtesy of our friends at ...

Another day, another marriage ruined by the Internet. Not surprisingly, the online virtual world 'Second Life,' in particula,r seems to be destroying the holy bond of matrimony every chance it gets. We can add the tale of UK couple John and Lisa Best to the list of reports of 'Second Life' infidelity leading to divorce. The mindbogglingly-careless John was laying in bed with his wife when he ...

For those of you who like to get busy in the wilderness, Outdoor Lovemap is your go-to resource. Billing itself as "the international guide to places to make love outdoors," the fledgling site uses Google Maps to pinpoint user recommended locations around the globe." Each place is rated for privacy, comfort, and legality, letting you plan your liaison accordingly. So what can you expect from the ...

Remember when you were a kid and you told your friends that you totally loved your new computer, and some little luddite looked at you and said, "So why don't you marry it?" There was that brief moment when you thought your Commodore 64 (C64) could, in fact, make a nice spouse. If not, move along. If so, David Levy told participants at a conference last week that we will all be having loving ...

Note to jilted lovers everywhere: those 'personal' pictures your lady or guy friend sent you are not good fodder for revenge. A man in the UK is facing jail time after forwarding nude images of his Internet lover to her entire address book. Stephen Hailes, 48, met Karen Parker, 36, in a chat room this summer and the two began an Internet love affair. During their online tryst, Parker, a married ...

There's an old journalism adage: "If your grandmother says she loves you, check it out." Well, the folks at Korean mobile operator KTF may have the technology to let you do just that. They claim their "Love Detector" service can analyze a cell phone conversation to determine which voice patterns indicate honesty, surprise, affection, and, yes, love. The phone subscriber receives a text message ...