Tag: RELATIONSHIPS

It's easy to feel sorry for lonely dudes. Beyond the fact that they are desolate, there are entire industries devoted to making them feel worse and taking their money. (The same goes for lonely ladies, as well, but let's keep the focus on guys for a moment). So, when apps like 'Cloud Girlfriend' come along, offering to create the "perfect woman" who will fake a loving relationship with someone ...

FindYourFacemate.com is a new dating site that is sure to raise some eyebrows when it launches later this month. After you upload a picture of yourself, the site uses facial recognition software to analyze your visage and find you a mate based on how similar you look. The software tracks key points on the face (eyes, nose, mouth, etc.) and finds individuals with similar placement and spacing. ...

For those of you that have never had the pleasure of "changing" your Facebook relationship status, here's what it's like: random people "like" your misfortune, friends all comment "Wha!?" and suddenly the inbox is filled with inquiries and messages from your high school lab partner asking if you are okay. Putting relationship statuses on Facebook is a defining experience, where you can proudly ...

Facebook users will soon be able to characterize their relationship statuses with a bit more precision, now that the social network has begun rolling out two new options: 'in a civil union' and 'in a domestic partnership.' The company made the move after consulting its Network of Support, which includes LGBT advocacy groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Gay, ...

First, your grandma got an e-mail account. Then, she joined Facebook. And now, she may even be using the Web to find romance. For proof, look no further than SeniorPeopleMeet.com, an online dating forum devoted exclusively to helping the elderly hook up. The service, which describes itself as 'The Senior People Network,' reportedly attracts 1,000 new members every day, thanks in large part to ...

There's a budding (and utterly bizarre) romance brewing on Twitter, between Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It all began in June, when Medvedev traveled to Silicon Valley, and locked eyes with the Governator for the first time. With his heart a-fluttering, the president flirtatiously winked at his new BFF, and even quoted the famous "I'll be ...

An Indianapolis couple has proven (yet again) that Facebook is nothing but trouble. After Maurice Davenport refused to let his girlfriend, Shemicka McVey, see his Facebook profile last Sunday night, an argument erupted. Taking the argument downstairs, and away from their two-year-old child's bedroom, McVey and Davenport continued to argue, while, at some point, McVey picked up a kitchen knife. It ...

Wasting your life away on Facebook may not seem like the most social of activities, but, according to a new study from the University of Texas, all those hours you spend on the social network may actually strengthen your personal ties with friends and family. To test the effects of Facebook on real-world relationships, researchers at the University of Texas questioned 900 college students and ...

Journalist David McCandless indexed over 10,000 Facebook status updates, and found that breakups peak twice a year: once just before spring break (to make you feel less guilty about all that drunken anonymous sex) and just before Christmas (to save cash on gifts). McCandless also found that most breakups happen on a Monday. The worst day of the week just got crappier. ...

Heartbroken lovers eager to get over their exes will no longer have to worry about running into painful old photos on Facebook, now that the social network has decided to automatically remove all unwanted romantic nostalgia from its 'Photo Memories' feature. The 'Memories' box, which appears in the top right corner of some Facebook pages, used to display photos of all your friends who were ...

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 ...

Share It may seem like a trivial choice to some, but picking out the perfect wedding ring is actually a pretty major decision. This is the piece of jewelry, after all, that your future spouse will be wearing (in theory) til death do you part, so it probably shouldn't look like a Ring Pop. Even more importantly, this ring could one day serve as an immediate deterrent to any bar flies or hussies ...

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 ...

Share We knew that Facebook has torn apart many a marriage across the pond. But according to a recent survey, it's become just as problematic for couples here in the US, too. A survey of high-profile divorce lawyers throughout the country reveals that increasing numbers of quarrelsome couples are now using Facebook data as evidence of marital infidelity. As attorney Mary Cay Trace told ...