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Thirty years ago, in a different life I was married to a police officer who left our small family for extended periods of time for training. It was all so different in those days, airfare was far more expensive than it is today, there were no such thing as long distance plans and the Internet [...]

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I stumbled on a short article recently called Are You Normal Online? The one-pager was full of fun little statistics about what women do online. Naturally, I headed to the Internet to do more research. Being 29, I spend most of my time online social mediaing (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare) and browsing retailers like Bloomingdale’s [...]

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For better than half a decade “Social Media” has become a household phrase and a worldwide phenomenon, and the undisputed heavyweight champ of the social media universe is your Facebook account.  Connecting family, friends, friends of friends and random acquaintances, it’s been keeping you in up to date on the comings and goings of your [...]

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  One of the hardest things to contend with in a long distance relationship is the lack of physical intimacy.  You can’t get a hug over an e-mail (or a blow job for that matter).  As anyone who has had to spend any length of time apart can tell you- it’s really, really hard, no [...]

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  Did Henri Bergson Predict Facebook in 1907? In 1907, a French philosopher named Henri Bergson predicted Facebook. He called it Elan Vital and described it as “an invisible force which creates organized groups.” He said this force “could make someone a lot of money if it was put into something and activated with electricity.” [...]

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At the end of last year, Facebook had 845 million active users. If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest in the world. What did people even do with themselves before Facebook’s inception in 2004? There really is nothing in the scope of history that can parallel Facebook’s impact on the way [...]

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  While technology and communication have been best friends with every advance, technology and relationships have always had a more tenuous coexistence. Every advance seemingly takes away from the all-important face-to-face time, which has especially been true in recent years as social networks are overshadowing even  “modern” forms of communication like email.  One recent statistic [...]

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“The bonds that unite another person to our self-exist only in our mind.” -Marcel Proust Taking out her mobile phone, Jenna stopped to think for a moment. Every day she sends her husband Kyle a brief text message just to reach out and let him know she’s thinking about him. Usually she texts, “Hiya,” “Thkg [...]

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We’ve all been there. It’s 2 a.m., and even though we know nothing good ever comes of clicking in that little “What’s on your mind?” box after four cocktails, we do it anyway. A devilish grin wipes across our face and before we know it we’re typing intelligent (yet entertaining) status updates like “Duuude I’m [...]

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As a freelance journalist I’ve reported on a lot of things – fashion and beauty, arts and entertainment, travel and lifestyle trends. But it’s two subjects I’ve written about in particular that I’m pondering as I type this – technology and relationships. See, I’ve spent a lot of my career so far reporting on technology [...]

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