Tag: ROMANCE

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. ...

Despite (or perhaps due to) the fact that Valentine's Day is just around the corner, we find ourselves a bit soured on the idea of love. Can we help but admit that we found Google's Super Bowl commercial last night a bit...saccharine? (Video after the break.) It plays off of every sappy romance trope: American boy meets French girl, falls in love, gets married, babies, etc. And he was able to ...

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 ...

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 ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/01/08/facebook-breakups-are-never-easy-heres-how-to-make-them-less-h/'; Share No one ever said breaking up was easy. But, as a backward-walking Chris Martin once told us, no one ever said it would be this hard, either -- and especially not as hard as Facebook has made it. In an article for The New York Times, Laura Holson dives headfirst into the thorny ...

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 ...

Ithaca may be "Gorges," but an ugly e-mail blunder has recently rocked the New York college town, eliciting a region-wide cringe. A married consultant employed at Cornell University, known as John, recently sent a long series of salacious e-mails to his mistress, a Cornell Business School employee named Lisa (also married). And now the entire school knows about it. See, in a recent email to his ...

Troubling instances of teen sexting have been all over the news as of late, with randy kids and their sexy messages and photographs often leading to public derision, expulsion, and sometimes even arrest. Thankfully, the disturbing trend among the nation's youth seems to be nearing an end. The primary reason? Because it looks like old people are getting into it. We know (gag), and we're sorry, ...

As any seasoned city-dweller knows, personal living space is valued at a premium. And as any warm-blooded human being knows, finding true love can present an even more harrowing task than locating a decent Manhattan sublet. Finding both? Crazy talk. The world's most populous country is no exception to this universal struggle. With over 1.3 billion people, China and its urban centers are becoming ...

Successfully navigating the seas of online dating can be a daunting and, some would argue, impossible feat. Sifting through profiles and trying to attach human qualities to otherwise cliched online personas is often arduous enough to deter even the most hardy romantics. A new approach to online matchmaking, featured at NYTimes.com, hopes to revolutionize the game. Started by divorced entrepreneur ...

Part urban poetry, part pure comedy, there is something touching about Sophie Blackall's "Missed Connections NY" drawings. Like most of us urban dwellers, Sophie occasionally drops in on the Craigslist 'Missed Connections' section, which hopes that some lovelorn individual has a moment of reciprocation with a complete stranger. Sophie draws those moments, simply, in colored pencil, and describes ...

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 ...

Remember when we indicated that half of women would rather spend time online than being intimate with their partners? Many of you reacted with disbelief and many of you agreed wholeheartedly. Regardless of your opinions on the subject, it seems that the sentiment is shared in Europe as well, with a survey of 20-something-year-old couples finding that 84-percent of them would rather break up ...

In the "oh no they didn't" category or geekdom, computer programmer Bernie Peng married his bride-to-be Tammy Li in New Jersey over the weekend. What made it so special? Peng popped the question to his girlfriend in arguably the nerdiest way possible: He spent a month reprogramming Li's Sfavorite game, 'Bejeweled,' so that when she reached a certain score a ring and a marriage proposal ...

We've seen some odd things from Google's Street View, which provides a 360-degree view of the highways and byways through many towns to help you find your way, but we haven't seen any geek marriage proposals yet. It took a Google employee, Michael Weiss-Malik, to pull that off. Weiss-Malik took advantage of a GoogleMobile drive-by to show his undying love for his fiancee, Leslie. Yes, she was ...