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How the Twitter world is responding to this and three more burning questions right now.
Every so often something takes off on Twitter. Before you know it, everyone around the world is responding to a random question—the kind that everyone has an answer to. Like right now. Follow YourTango on Twitter.
Four simple prompts we consider often here at YourTango are creating a flury of responses about everything from personal habits to financial status:
"He's cute but..."
"She's cute but..."
"Ladies please stop..." 15 Relationship Mistakes We Wish We'd Stop Making
"Fellas please stop..."
Here, our favorite responses to each.
He's cute but...
sometimes appears possessed by a devil. (sophiebifield)
his back isn't hairy enough. (humpman23)
his jeans are tighter … Read More
Romance rules for the digital age.
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
What you're doing wrong with your online profile, from the female perspective.
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
Social networking puts infidelity at our fingertips. Here's how to guard against the Facebook lure.
Since starting a psychotherapy practice 15 years ago, I've witnessed three basic waves of technology-based infidelity.
Back in the '90s, my clients generally discovered infidelity when opening their partner's cell phone bill. The story was pretty much the same for all of these clients: they would see countless calls to the same number, dial it up and find themselves speaking with the object of their partner's indiscretions. Then came email, the second wave of technology-assisted infidelity. These stories began to emerge in the late '90s. Suspicious partners would log in to their partner's email account and find plentiful evidence of extra-relational … Read More
New dating advice: say "no" instead of "yes" when looking for Mr. Right.
You are in a state.
"Pangs of love," you say as you roll over on the couch, pantomiming stab motions to the heart. Your roommate looks bemused. It's the third or fourth date, and you've been struggling to hold off sending those late-night, inappropriate text messages. "Head. Heels. You. Me." (send—no wait, delete.) New Relationship Rules: Texting & IMing
Instead, you're on your knees, head in hands, summoning the forces of the universe to carry your love-cry out to the one you desire. Does he hear? Maybe. Will it be returned? The silence of everything that has not been … Read More
Status updates reveal that she still loves Blake.
According to multiple British tabloids, Amy Winehouse has been secretly keeping in contact with her former husband and druggie-in-crime Blake Fielder-Civil through a recently activated Facebook account under the handle "Shirley," the name of her pet cat.
Proving to be yet another example of the many break-up and moving-on challenges in a socially-networked world, "the pair have been messaging each other with rhymes and ramblings," according to OK Magazine. 20 Relationships And Technology Dos And Don'ts
For example:
...Shirley has posted several status updates, including one in which she says she loves "Sailor," … Read More
A love letter found 10 years after it was written leads a couple to reunite and marry.
Like a plot ripped straight from a Nicholas Sparks novel, the BBC reports that a UK man finally married his ex-fiancee after a lost love letter he wrote to her 10 years ago was recently discovered behind a fireplace in her mother's villa.
Steve Smith met Carmen Ruiz-Perez in 1993 when the pair was both 25 and she was an Spanish exchange student living in Devon, England.
The two were briefly engaged, but the relationship fell apart after Ruiz-Perez moved to Paris to run a boutique.
Five years later, in 1998, Smith located the address of Ruiz-Perez's mother in Spain … Read More
Dating via Facebook, Skype dating, and how high heels help your sex drive.
Love Bytes: Five must-click sex, love and relationship links.
Me, my fiance and Facebook. [FNC iMag]
I guarantee that you have this problem, too. In a relationship or not, we spend more time with technology than with real people. I have actually seen (in my Newsfeed, of course) couples communicate through Facebook when they're sitting right next to each other.
Does a man who cheats on his wife really love her? [Yahoo! Shine]
Skyecandy introduces Skype dating. [URLesque]
High heels increase sex drive. [Lime Life]
10 ways to avoid hearbreak with dating services. [MSNBC]
One way technology is making infidelity more seamless than ever before.
Remember that question floated around in some truth-or-dare games that went something like, "If you were sure you could get away with it, and would never get caught, would you cheat?" Well, we may soon be finding out just how many people will cheat when the process is made seamless.
Now, there's an app that allows you to find an adulterous partner with a few taps of the keyboard—or handheld device. A website named AshleyMadison.com is a dating site specifically for committed individuals who want to cheat, and now it can be accessed by Blackberry and iPhone, reports Jeremy Caplan in … Read More
This is one man who's happy to ask for directions. But should he trust his wife… or his new GPS?
I'm a man, which is supposed to mean that I'm not willing to ask for directions. But on this front, I've always been a little different. For the last nine years, my wife has been my shining directional beacon, a kind of sit-next-to-me Northern Star. When we lived in New York City, she would send me on the subway with yellow post-it notes that detailed the stops and transfers. Without these handwritten guides, I'd likely be penning this story as an emissary of the mole people.
But this year, I was given a Garmin global positioning system (GPS) as a birthday … Read More