YourTango's Break Up With Your Ex Day helped readers get over past relationships and move on.
On February 13, 2011, YourTango celebrated the very first annual Break Up With Your Ex Day, a day on which we urged people to let go of painful memories, insidious social media connections and dead weight relationship baggage in an attempt to move on in both love and life. We asked you to unfollow, untag, delete, block and erase. How did YourTango readers do?
Facebook stalking can lead to distrust, jealousy, cheating, and divorce. Privacy is rare today.
Online social media has become a part of our everyday routine. Whether you’re on twitter, facebook, digg, tumblr, or whatever else, you have access too millions of people including people who are close to you in your own life. The most popular of these sites is facebook which will have 1 billion members before we know it. Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends, and keep tabs of your significant other.
A new survey finds 25 percent of people have taken a phone call during sexy time.
A new poll by British company MyPhoneDeals.co.uk recently tracked customer phone use and to obtain some stats. They took numbers on pretty interesting questions, and we'll just say the answers were "interesting" as well, for lack of an all-encompassing word. One survey question asked users whether or not they had ever taken a phone call in the middle of sex. A ridiculous 25% of people admit to answering a call while doing the deed. Yes, that is one in four!
Have you ever wondered if Twitter could improve things at home? Or with your kids? With the addition of social networks in the past few years, it's amazing how easy it has become to stay "connected" to other people. Yet even with the connectedness these tools offer, many people are still more disconnected than ever. Especially at home. So could these tools be used to enhance marriage? Sure.
Through Facebook, TIME Person of The Year Mark Zuckerberg has altered the dating game forever.
Today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named TIME "Person of the Year 2010." If the people at TIME were looking for a game-changer to receive this honor, they found the right man. Zuckerberg has undoubtedly altered the way more than half a billion people connect. He has changed our generation forever, and he definitely deserves the this distinction. However, we would also like to personally note Mark for yet another feat. He's managed to make our dating lives that much more complicated.
"Facebook Manners And You" stars Alice and Timmy's love story continues... on Facebook, naturally.
While some may long for the simpler days of sock hops and soda shoppe romance—we at YourTango wonder what the old days would have been like with modern technology thrown in the mix. Remember "Facebook Manners And You"? The love story continues... on Facebook, naturally. Many of you met Alice and Timmy, the stars of "Facebook Manners and You," our Webby Award-nominated video about Facebook relationship dos and don'ts, in Spring 2009. Now those crazy kids are back! This time they're documenting their relationship for the world to see with their "Electronic Picture Diaries." Using their MyPhones and OurTube, Alice and Timmy try to manage their old-fashioned love with modern technology. "Facebook Manners and You" was a viral hit and Alice and Timmy's electronic picture diaries are posed to do the same. Each week, starting November 15, a new Alice and Timmy video will be released on YourTango's Facebook fan page. You can view the trailer below and watch the first episode by visiting this link: Facebook.com/yourtango
As technology advances, so do the methods that people can cheat. Before
the days of cell phones and picture messaging, people had to relay on
actually seeing each other in order to get things done, but now with
picture messaging and facebook people can communicate without even being
in the same part of the world. What happens when you find that your
partner has been sending inappropriate texts of pictures to someone
else? Does this count as cheating since it can be assumed that if the
person was nearby they would be seeing the real thing? Clearly they are thinking about cheating.
I personally think that this should count as cheating, as there are
many ways to go about it. Cheating constitutes more than just a physical
affair, it can be an emotional affair
as well and when you send pictures to supplement the emotions you
Are we too hard on teen moms? Plus, ways to avoid nagging.
Every week, Traditional Love rounds up some of the best links to marriage and relationship news from around the web. This week, we're talking about the premier of Teen Mom and whether society is more likely to judge younger moms than older mom and can Skype really save a realtionship? It did for Kendra Wilkenson. And while we did run our own story on the show Sister Wives, we're obsessed with these non-traditional traditional relationships. Would you take on a second spouse if your faith required it?
Facebook status update tracking reveals the most common months and day for breakups.
Early March and December have been dubbed the two biggest break up months according to a data visualization by David McCandless. His source? Facebook status updates.
Facebook has finally appeased people tired of seeing their exes in the Photo Memories box.
You know that ritual where people toss out pictures and mementos from past relationships? A couple of months ago, Facebook ruined that for millions of heartbroken people after it began displaying pictures of their exes in the Photo Memories module. If Photo Memories has ever ambushed you with bittersweet reminders of happier times, you'll be glad to know that Facebook has finally taken measures to stop exes from showing up in your profile.
A heart-shaped gadget from Japan lets long-distance lovers feel like they're holding hands.
Nothing says "long distance relationship" like waiting months on end just to hold your partner's hand. Miserable, right? Enter the Taion Heart, a Japanese handheld gadget that mimics the sensation of holding hands by sending your pressure squeeze, pulse and hand temperature to your partner's matching device.
