| Facebook adds new twist to the sometimes rocky road of romance
Breaking up has always been hard to do, but lately, the suddenly single are discovering a whole new heap of heartaches with Facebook. The popular social networking website allows users to indicate their relationship status with labels like "married," "single," "engaged" and the mysterious "it's complicated." But changes to the status are often broadcast on a "News Feed" to a user's Facebook "friends" - everyone from close pals to college drinking buddies to co-workers. Since you don't actually talk to many of your so-called friends on the site, it adds a totally new dimension to dating, says Dave, a Winnipegger who didn't want his real name published. Dave recalls having a misunderstanding with his girlfriend late one evening, and by the next morning she had changed her relationship status on Facebook, which automatically updated Dave's page.
New UK Service That Matches People Via Mobile Phone
In addition to the basic service YourMyCrush.com will soon be expanding to include an online store, dating tips, an advice forum and other customisable areas for users to make use of with their mobile phones. The service is presently limited to UK mobile phone networks but will shortly be providing access to other countries in Europe and the rest of the world. Overall, this is a simple idea, executed cleanly, providing a very helpful and (so far) very successful new mobile match making system. The key demographic is young teens and the "school youth" area, however the site has seen a number of 'older' people use the system successfully too. At the end of the day you are only as old as you feel. About YourMyCrush.com: http://YourMyCrush.com is a mobile content provider and unique mobile service provider for the United Kingdom.
Pairing up: Couples now seek friends online
Chalnick, 33, had the idea for the Web site in 2004, after he and his wife moved from Manhattan to Rockland County in upstate New York. We bought a huge house and realized all our friends were in Manhattan, he said. Both he and his wife worked full-time, each commuting 90 minutes each day, and had no time to meet couples in their new neighborhood. Couplets.com currently has more than 2,000 members in the United States. Sheila Zamel, founder of Couplesworldwide.com, started in much the same way. She remarried and moved from South Africa to Calabasas, Calif. She and her husband were in their 40s and wanted to meet new couples, but they found it surprisingly difficult. Im very active, Zamel said. But its very hard to have time to go out and meet people, and where do you go to meet people? After months of research, Zamel launched Couplesworldwide.com in November 2006.
How boobonomics explains the world
A friend who spends his life negotiating with the agents of glamour models explained to me the principles of "boobonomics". Let's assume a pretty girl, who has been snapped in her bikini for a local newspaper, seeks a big-time career. Her agent phones a men's magazine and proposes for a given sum, say £3,000, that she pose in lingerie. If she's a hit with the readers, her agent will then suggest that for a greater sum, say £5,000, she will pose topless, but with her nipples concealed by her cupped fingers ("hand bra"). Subsequently her fee will rise for each coy permutation: "hair bra" or "girl-on-girl bra" (two models face to face shielding each other's breasts). Eventually, once this dance of the seven thongs has been exhausted and readers are believed to be slavering with anticipation, the agent will propose that for a huge sum say £50,000 the girl will finally reveal all.
Nadine's Bad Boy Chat
Ladies, gents, Nadine Coyle fans, we'd like to introduce Nadine's ideal man. But there's only one teensy problemo. At this stage he's just a description, or rather let's think of him as a figment of words. Why? Well, Nadine told the Sunday Mirror: "My ideal man is someone dark and mysterious. Someone with a bit of an edge, a bit of a bad boy. "The whole game - as I think of dating - is you want to take someone who's a wee bit wild and a wee bit unruly, then have a nice relationship and for them to show their sensitive side - but for them to still have that bad boy edge to them." My, but doesn't all of the above sound like a certain hunk she used to date, in the form of Jesse Metcalfe? The pair broke up earlier this year, but seem to have remained friends, and have been photographed out and about a couple of times of late.
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