Technology has fundamentally changed the way we seek, nurture, and experience intimacy. Beyond the coy status updates, drunken emails and occasional sexting, we find soulmates on dating sites, we send "I <3 U's" with our thumbs, we fight over IM, make up over email, then go on Facebook to announce to the world our renewed devotion. Gadgets have enhanced our love lives, but they also enable mixed messages, vague sentiments and other bits of intentional or unintentional confusion. Texting Your Way To Love 

The questions around protocol are endless: Should I text him or email him? She sounds sad … Read More

Are you a dude on an online dating site? Are you having trouble getting women to actually go out with you? Not sure why? The problem may be you! From corny pickup lines to photo no-nos to profile mistakes, The Frisky gives you the lowdown on the top five mistakes men make when dating online—from the female perspective. Get it right, and we might let you take us out on a date! The Frisky: Real Dating Advice For The Technological Age

Photo No-Nos: Don't post a photo of yourself holding a beer. Do you think we want to … Read More

Online dating is haaaaaaaaard. But new research suggests that if you're not having any luck finding love on the Internet, you just aren't using the right words in your profile. Like "zombies" and "atheist"—apparently, just two of the "hot words" for today's single people.

According to a hilarious study by online dating site OkCupid, people who mentioned those words were more likely to get a date. (The site skews pretty young, which explains why you might find more references to "Shawn of the Dead" than, say, a Roth IRA.) So basically, godless, horror-film-geek … Read More

Are you a fan of Sex and The City? Do you have a career? Then you may like The Broadroom, the new web series from Candace Bushnell—she of SATC, Lipstick Jungle and other fun depictions of modern woman. The show stars Jennie Garth and Jennifer Esposito, and takes a humorous look at five women juggling career and personal life.

As we all know, relationships and work inevitably influence each other—in the first episode one woman describes herself as a cougar, another wonders if it was weird that her husband keeps sending her pictures of her cat and a third bemoans her … Read More

Web 2.0 may be the most cathartic thing to happen to breakups since a pimply middle schooler invented slam books.

Recently, we happened upon a charming little website called DearOldLove.com. The concept is very simple: Much in the way that PostSecret.com publishes postcards with people's deepest secrets written on them, DearOldLove posts small, poignant notes from people who have one last thing to say to that one old love. Under the guise of anonymity, it's surprising how much that is left unsaid between ex-lovers can find itself out in the open for all to read. Read: … Read More

Our friends over at lemondrop recently posed a question that we feel merits a weighty response: Are you pro or con online dating? Why yes, yes we are. And while we at Love Buzz can easily understand the typical objections and complaints (e.g. the whiffs of residual stigma or the dreaded "he looks nothing like his profile picture" scenario), we feel that there are many upsides to the practice that should be taken under consideration. Without further delay, let us begin.

Top 8 Reasons Why Online Dating Is Great:

1. Know Thyself. Whether through the free personality profile at eHarmony, … Read More

We hear about relationships torn apart by internet porn addiction, but where are the support groups for smut-loving women like me, who suddenly and inexplicably get turned off by porn when they fall in love?  Before I met my boyfriend, I was visiting youporn.com about a half an hour a day, hunting through dozens of clips to find the one most perfectly calibrated to turn me on. 

After I met my boyfriend, my visits to the site dropped off in equal proportion to how much I was getting off with a flesh-and-blood human being.

But my loss of appetite for porn … Read More

Hell hath no fury like a woman angered by some leaked nude pics.

As if the Chris Brown and Rihanna relationship needed any more strain and controversy, the pair are now apparently locked in a war of retaliatory photo leaks.

After naked snapshots of Rihanna made the rounds on the Internet earlier this month, an informant told Star magazine that the 21-year-old songstress blames her allegedly abusive ex-boyfriend, R&B singer Chris Brown. And although the Brown camp vehemently denies the allegation, Rihanna doesn't seem to be buying it. She's threatening to release a few unflattering shots of Brown in … Read More

Although there's still a certain inexplicable stigma attached to it, I am a huge proponent of online dating. I met my long-term boyfriend that way and the majority of weddings I've been to over the past couple years have been for couples who've met via the internet.

So whenever I hear a friend whine about how they never meet anyone, I give them the online spiel. Heck, Nerve.com should be paying me a commission because I've talked so many people into joining. Read: 365 Days of Online Dating

But as awesome as online dating is for expanding your dating … Read More

According to a study at the prestigious Institute For Things I Could Have Told You (psych, it was Evolutionary Psychology), people are only superficially attracted opposites. Current.com, breaks the study down like this:

Seven-hundred and sixty people from an online dating site were asked to answer some questions about themselves and what they're looking for in a mate. And then they were asked if they were into people who were similar or a complement to them (759 respondents liked people who complimented them, the other guy was a masochist). Then they introduced the phrase "positive … Read More