relationships

Are you ready for some cheery PR spin? Some deeply thought out, loving, but slightly cold-hearted PR spin?

Alright then. Staples, the people who offer you the Easy button, would like to impart some important personal information to ease your spirit.

For the company has just performed its fifth-annual Small Business Survey (yes, I missed the first four, too) and discovered that techno-love has now superseded the fleshy, inadequate, unsatisfying version in which so many of us still naively believe.

It appears that 60 percent of small business owners admit that they dedicate more time to holding their cell phones … Read more

How much do you know about your lover?

You know, things that they don't know you know, things that you happen to have read when they might have idly left their laptop open on their Gmail homepage.

Or do you, perhaps, know your lover's password and regularly check what they write about you? Do you worry, indeed, that they are unfaithful in body as well as in spirit?

I ask because some enterprising justice-seeking prosecutors in Michigan have decided to bring charges against a husband for reading his wife's e-mail.

Specifically, according to the Detroit Free Press, … Read more

Right now, millions of men all over the world are sweating.

They are poised over their laptops, wondering what to write to a girl whose fetching photograph they have espied on Facebook, eHarmony or, perhaps, Lifestyle Lounge.

They are wondering whether to tell her she has beautiful hair. They are twisted about whether to compliment her eyes, her cheeks or even, perish the daring, her obvious intelligence.

One false step and they will disappear into the trash.

I want to save these men from themselves and their torture. Thankfully, armed with new research from dating site Badoo.com, I bear … Read more

If you have ever been wronged in love, you know there are ways of making those who have crossed you cross.

You can cut up their clothes and hang them from the flagpole of your local town hall. You can send worldwide e-mails suggesting that they have additional body parts not visible to the casual observer. Or you can attempt to truly mess with their heads by getting into their Netflix accounts, and playing with their movie likes and dislikes.

We are, as Mark Zuckerberg might mumble into his pillow late at night, what we like. So who cannot believe … Read more

It seems we can't all get along. It seems that everyone is splitting up these days.

Today, one reads of Eva Longoria filing divorce papers against the San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker. Indeed, the Huffington Post now has a whole section devoted just to divorce.

Can we possibly blame the Church of Social Networking, Facebook, for these woes? Or at least some of them? Might Facebook be to blame for creating so many desperate housewives and husbands?

One man of God, the Rev. Cedric Miller, believes that all married couples should close their Facebook accounts in order to protect … Read more

Perhaps you might be feeling slightly saggy about Facebook's new idea of owning all of your communications in the entire world.

I can do something about that. I can tell you about what's really happening on Facebook and in the entire world of technological communication.

There is some sex. There is more sending of naked pictures to those who are not the sender's lover. And there is a remarkable amount of shared online porn viewing.

While you begin to feel better already, let me put some leaves on those shooting branches. For, thanks to AllFacebook.com, I … Read more

Hilda Legging is in a relationship with her very married, but luscious-lipped, CEO. Jonathan Footsore would like everyone to know that he just enjoyed breast reduction surgery. Harold Bragadoccio is currently rocking orange underwear from Victoria's Secret.

With all the opportunity that Facebook offers us for sharing our most tightly-held intimacies, sometimes we regret offering up what should have never seen the light of a laptop.

Yet, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt is so keen to remind us, once it's out there, it's out there for the rest of your days. Hey, you might even get special … Read more

Facebook is irresistible.

Somehow, people just love to commit their latest and innermost happenings to the site. And somehow, those who analyze Facebook postings begin to see patterns in the callous behavior of the callow and cowardly.

David McCandless, a man who likes to make information look pretty in order for it to be understood, concocted a highly romantic picture of relationships on Facebook.

He presented it in August at the TED conference, but it has only now descended from that summit to attract the attention of the great unnoticed.

His methodology was to scrape Facebook for status updates that … Read more

Have you lost hope?

Are you sick of slogging away on sites such as Match.com and eHarmony.com to find the partner of your dreams? Or at least the partner who will put up with your dead lizard collection, your back hair, and your difficult morning breath?

Then perhaps it is time to be honest with yourself. Perhaps it is time to look in the mirror and decide that you should be at the Ugly Bug Ball. Or, more accurately, on it.

The Ugly Bug Ball is a dating site for those who are aesthetically challenged. That is the … Read more