Digital Cupid, a new Facebook app from Charlotte-based ad agency Tattoo Projects, purports to tell you which Facebook friend to get freaky with. There's no mention of how the program determines your match, but we're guessing it's just the Sorting Hat in pretty dress. » 2/12/13 10:00pm 2/12/13 10:00pm

For a long time, when you googled my BFF, now a successful literary manager, one of the first things that popped up was a review of a production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra that she directed in the basement of a pizzeria. The review was, how do I put this, fucking awful and specifically called my friend out… » 12/27/12 6:50pm 12/27/12 6:50pm

Let's just be honest for a second: making female friends is hard in a new city. You want to be like, "Hey, want to get a drink sometime?" and then you don't because you're scared, and then a few days later she Tweets something about how much she likes Dane Cook or how much she hates abortion, and you're like "FUUUUUU," and … » 7/14/12 3:45pm 7/14/12 3:45pm

If you're a lady, dating online is nothing like an eharmony commercial, where a polite queue of nice men in navy sweaters and bouquets of daisies send you well-punctuated messages asking about your favorite place to go hiking. The reality of online dating, for women at least, is more like sauntering down the sidewalk… » 5/30/12 6:40pm 5/30/12 6:40pm

With our various electronic devices always pinging and beeping to notify us of various developments in the world, be it a "liked" Facebook status or a breaking news alert, you wouldn't think we'd need MORE ways to gauge how well-received we were online. And yet, apparently we do. That's why Benjamin Redford invented a… » 5/15/12 5:15pm 5/15/12 5:15pm

I spent a period of time last year selling my "well-worn panties just for you!" online. It was definitely a profitable enterprise; I just didn't have the entrepreneurial fortitude to take it to the next level. I would find myself yelling aloud at people not in the room as I read the emails of potential customers and… » 2/03/12 1:15pm 2/03/12 1:15pm

Someone hacked Zappos, and now a nation bites its nails, worried that our shoe shopping habit is in danger. But, thank God, it is not. Your access to sale-priced sneakers and stylish stilettos will not be denied—but you will need to change your password if you want to keep safely procuring three pairs of the same shoe … » 1/16/12 9:30am 1/16/12 9:30am

According to a study by Women at NBCU, women and men say they couldn't live without the internet or sleep for a month, but when asked for a third item they couldn't live with out, men chose ‘sex', while women chose ‘showers'. » 7/23/11 3:15pm 7/23/11 3:15pm

Cheryl Gray, 50, met Wylie Iwan, 35, on Mafia Wars. The two never met in real life, but now she's suing him for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress because he told her he loved her, requested and accepted gifts from her, and then dumped her. » 7/13/11 5:55pm 7/13/11 5:55pm

Does a "sexualized" avatar invite disrespectful behavior online? While conducting an experiment to measure human empathy toward human actors compared with digital representations, researchers discovered a strange quirk: men judged the avatar pleading for sympathy more harshly than the actress. » 2/23/10 5:00pm 2/23/10 5:00pm

Facebook is the self-control killer, as many of us already know. But will it end your relationship? Some UK-based law firms believe the popular social networking site plays an increasing role in petitions for divorce. » 12/21/09 3:40pm 12/21/09 3:40pm

British Housewives surf the internet more than any other group, spending an average of 47% of their 5.8 hours a day of spare time online, according to new research. This was longer than their counterparts in any other country, including the U.S., where housewives spend 38% of their free time online. Housewives went… » 12/09/08 6:30pm 12/09/08 6:30pm