Tag: RELATIONSHIPS

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 ...

Facebook's slogan constantly reminds us that the social networking site is there solely to help you "connect and share with the people in your life." But does it actually deliver on its promise? According to one recent study conducted by Red Associates, most people remain uncertain about how to go about socializing online, and many don't use Facebook to "connect" with their friends at all. As ...

Whereas traditional therapist-patient relationships have always been restricted to the four walls of a shrink's office, doctors and patients alike have begun taking their camaraderie online. And, as the L.A. Times reports, the trend has raised the eyebrows of many medical ethicists, most of whom consider Facebook friendships or investigative Google searches a direct violation of the doctor-patient ...

Share According to a new study from the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, and Nottingham Trent University, you're all a bunch of snoops. The three schools surveyed 1,000 married British couples and found that in one-third of the relationships, at least one partner admitted to having spied on their spouse's electronic activities. One fifth of respondents had read their ...

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 ...

If Valentine's Day reminds of one thing, it's that love, as ABBA once warned us, isn't easy. And, when the single life becomes especially tiresome, many of us turn to the Internet to flirt, date, or even just chat. While online courtship may have once been stigmatized or discounted as some sort of "last resort," a new study suggests that our romantic norms may be shifting -- in a major way. ...

Share After a woman recently found her boyfriend's cell phone filled with not-so-subtle sext messages like "Booty call," she, understandably, sent him packing. As it turns out, though, he didn't write them. Apparently, some workers at Virgin Mobile thought it'd be super hilarious to pre-load a bunch of sexts into someone's phone. The butt of this lame joke, unfortunately, was one Darren P. of ...

If you're one of those people with about 3,000 Facebook friends, you probably think you're pretty cool. But we'd bet good money that you only actually interact with a tiny fraction of them. And Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, would probably put money down with us. Dunbar conducted a study that shows most people can only maintain an active social circle ...

With Valentine's Day approaching, starry-eyed romantics of all ages will soon be biting their nails in anticipation as they struggle to come up with the perfect way to tell that special someone just how special they are. Luckily, though, a Valentine's Day stalwart is adding a special social media twist to its amorous artillery this year, so you can tell your crush that yeah, you're sweet and you ...

We've all been tempted to do it, and, let's just be honest, many of us have done it before. Paranoia or boredom grips, and we read through text messages or e-mails on our significant other's phone. But when the tables turn, how do you ensure this invasion of privacy isn't perpetrated? A new iPhone application called 'iTrust' takes an interesting (and possibly ineffective) approach. According ...

Besides helping "you connect and share with the people in your life," Facebook, apparently, helps you split up with them, too. That's at least what a recent report in The Telegraph suggests, citing the increasing number of divorce filings that implicate the social networking site. It seems that Facebook and its kin make cheating on spouses easier, more tempting, and, by the same token, more ...

Analysts have been torn when investigating the addictive properties of video games, but at least one lonely girlfriend believes the debatable affliction is indeed very real. Apparently, she also decided that the only remedy for her Xbox-distracted boyfriend was staging an abusive, hysterical, and repugnant intervention. The jilted woman actually filmed her violent ultimate solution, and, if the ...

The latest Facebook redesign has been begrudgingly accepted by the whiny masses, and now that everyone has stopped complaining and started actually paying attention, some interesting new features are being revealed. One of those tweaks, caught by Nick O'Neill at All Facebook, is how relationships now appear in the news feed. Specifically, when friends get engaged, the corresponding update is ...

Cell phones and computers have made it much easier for long-distance lovers to remain romantic. However, text messages and e-mails lack that intimate touch. While it's still not quite the same as being there, a new device from Distance Lab aims to keep that flame burning strong in long-distance relationships. BBC News reports that the Mutsugoto, which has been in development for nearly two ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/08/05/17-niche-dating-sites-for-specialty-lovers/'; There's somebody out there for everyone. And thanks to the Web, they are easier to find than ever. Today, online dating sites cater to any interest, vocation, hobby, fetish, and even shared disease. If you're single and very particular -- or you just want to peak at some of the weirder matchmaking ...