• Dumped on Facebook
  From: The Dateable Dork
  I have a friend who was recently dumped on Facebook.  Kind of.  Apparently she and this guy had been starting something up – lots of phone calls, texts, and one actual date – and then suddenly he changed his Facebook status to “in a relationship” – with someone else.  Uhhh, what the fuck???  Apparently, unbeknownst to my friend, he had been starting something up with another girl simultaneously, and I guess he finally picked her over my friend.  And instead of talking to my very n...
• Your Call: Facebooking the One That Got Away
  From: Today on EMandLO.com
  photo by mangpages Dear Em Lo, When I was 18 I walked away from the first love in my life. He has been the man that I based all other relationships on. Recently, thanks to Facebook, we have reunited as friends. We email and text and met for lunch once. We are both married with children. I haven’t told my husband about him, though I’m sure he suspects something. How do I tell my husband about this friendship that I don’t want to share with him? I don’t want to sneak around, which...
• Ashton And Demi Tweetup In The Bedroom
  From: YourTango | The Latest Smart Talk About Love
  Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore tweet their way to the bedroom using TwitPics, in effect creating their own private Tweetup. But is such digital foreplay TMI for fans and Twitter followers? With followers still in the millions, I'm thinking not. Obviously, we're hanging onto every 140-character missive.Keywords: ashton Kutcher, Ashton Kutcher Demi Moore, celeb love, celebrity, celebrity news, Demi Moore, twitterBookmark/Share this post with: read more
• Man Quits Women, Marries Video Game Character
  From: YourTango | The Latest Smart Talk About Love
  You know how relationships are "hard?" And you more or less can't live with women (or men) AND can't live without them? Well, per BoingBoing, a man has decided to quit the old "human" romance rat race. A fella called Sal9000 isn't giving up on love, just love with things that are three-dimensional. The phenomenon of love and infatuation with animated characters is called Otaku and a dude has taken it to the extreme by marrying a video game character named Nene Anegasaki from a Nintendo DS* game...
• Groom Tweets His Wedding
  From: Tomfoolery | YourTango
  A fellow named Dana Hanna committed the ultimate faux pas of using his mobile during his actual wedding ceremony to Tweet (on Twitter, no less) the great news. The video was immediately posted on Twitter and now he and wife Tracy Page are getting mad, Internet famous off of the faux pas. Everyone wins! Everyone but good taste, that is. Keywords: tweet, twitter, weddingBookmark/Share this post with: read more
• iPhone App Investigates Your Date
  From: The Frisky
  Good news—well, depending on your definition of good. Two new iPhone apps, “Is He Really Single?” and “Stud or Dud,” act like an electronic private eye to collect information on your date—like whether he’s been married, divorced, has a criminal...
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• The Most Annoying Facebook Couples
  From: YourTango | The Latest Smart Talk About Love
  For anyone who is remotely active on Facebook, you no doubt have been faced at some point with inane updates on one of your friend's kid's colds or how wedding-planning was coming along for one of your engaged friends. Their updates are filled with flowery adjectives and almost always include the words "amazing," "luckiest," and "best! ever!" So, without further ado, I present Facebook's Five Most Annoying Couples, after the jump.Keywords: facebook, love buzz, pet namesBookmark/Share this post w...
• Dating Advice: Is Sexting Sexy?
  From: StyleCaster.com's News Feed
  Sexting, a modern way of flirting via technology, has become increasingly popular among teens and young adults. The urban dictionary defines sexting as "When a guy and a girl send dirty text messages back and forth to each other. Pictures may also be included, but only if you're lucky..." The question is: Who exactly is sexting? And, is it sexy? Because we can all use a little help, we broke down exactly when it is fun and flirty to send a sext and when you should put down your phone. You...
• OkCupid Checks Out The Dynamics Of Attraction And Your Love Inbox
  From: TechCrunch
  Every few weeks Internet dating site OkCupid uses the power of anonymized data to share a few truths about the online dating scene and human nature in general. To be sure, these reports are often highly controversial and aren’t going to be showing up in scientific literature any time soon, but they’re generally interesting (and often amusing) reads. The latest report to come out addresses ‘Your Looks And Your Inbox’, charting the number of messages users receive in relation to how attr...
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• Text and the City
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  Sex and the City was the closet thing to a relationship therapist we’ve ever had. In every episode one of the girls goes through something relatable that helped us through a similar situation. We were obsessed with the show for that reason, and felt that besides their insanely amazing wardrobes, the girls were pretty much just like [...]
• Are You Hot Enough For This Dating Site?
  From: YourTango | The Latest Smart Talk About Love
  BeautifulPeople.com is a dating site for the beautiful. But don't expect admission if you're British.Keywords: appearance, attraction, beauty, brazil, british, Dating, dating site, hot, love buzz, online dating, single, SwedenBookmark/Share this post with: read more
• Facebook Automatically Displays Couple Photos When Users Become Engaged
  From: All Facebook
  Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon as some of my Facebook friends become engaged: a photo of the couple is displayed along with the story about the couple’s new “engaged” relationship status. It’s a subtle change but it’s a nice touch by Facebook as a photo always helps a story resonate with readers. The new engaged story update has appeared to come with the updated homepage design. There’s a chance that Facebook also displays a couple’s photo when...
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Dating Don’ts: Know Your Textiquette

Texting has become as ubiquitous as the cell phones that birthed them, but what is it doing to our love lives? Can you imagine what a different movie “Casablanca” would be if, instead of suavely growling, “Here’s looking at you, kid,” Rick instead texted Ilsa:

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Same sentiment (sort of), yet all the romance, sexiness and possibility has been drained out of it.

Wise Guys: Why Do Men Hate Talking on the Phone?

Straight men seem to not indulge in gossip and tangential storytelling when it comes to conversing with others. The phone is much more utilitarian to them. It’s about communicating the necessary information: where to meet, when, where are you parked, what should he buy your parents, etc. For the most part, they aren’t interested in talking about the banalities of daily life on the phone, and certainly not their feelings