New York: Even though photos of your ex on Facebook can be deleted with just a click, the proliferation of social networking sites has made forgetting after a break-up a bigger chore, a new study has found.
"People are keeping huge collections of digital possessions," said Steve Whittaker, a psychology professor at UC Santa Cruz who specialises in human-computer interaction.
"There has been little exploration of the negative role of digital possessions when people want to forget aspects of their lives," said Whittaker.
Whittaker and co-author Corina Sas, of Lancaster University, examined the challenges of digital possessions and their disposal after a romantic breakup....
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11:52 AM, May 11, 2013
London: Engaging in too much social media activity may damage strong relationships, a new Oxford study has warned. Research by Dr Bernie Hogan of Oxford University tested the theory of 'media multiplexity' (the ability to communicate via several communications channels) which was first posed in 2005. The theory suggests that there is a clear link between the number of media channels used to communicate, the frequency they are used and...
02:31 PM, Apr 10, 2013
More illicit affairs start on January 7 than any other day of the year, experts say. ...
11:57 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Women can tell with some accuracy whether an unfamiliar male is faithful simply by looking at his face, but men seem to lack the same ability when checking out women, according to an Australian study published on Wednesday. ...
10:24 AM, Dec 05, 2012
With changing times, people are getting busier and they hardly have time to meet their friends and relatives. While some feel that social media is a good way to connect with each other, others say there is no replacement to personal meetings. ...
09:53 PM, Nov 11, 2012
In this world consumed by technology, competition and ambition, relationships have changed a lot. People have less time for each other and even during festive seasons, they hardly get time to hold personal meetings with their relatives, friends and other loved ones. ...
09:44 PM, Nov 11, 2012
London: British actor Daniel Radcliffe says the most important thing in life is having good relationships with your friends, family and loved ones. The 23-year-old admits he is often plagued by self-doubt and worries about his work and it is at these times when he realises the importance of true friends, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "When you do feel self-doubt or you do feel unhappy and you talk to someone about it,...
03:04 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Two days after 23-year-old Geetika Sharma's suicide, the Gurgaon police are yet to question Haryana's former deputy home minister Gopal Kanda in the case. ...
11:57 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Incidents of violence against women for love marriages or entering into relationships are increasing in the country, a feminist legal group said on Friday. Advocating the women's right to choice of marriage and relationships, the Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI) said that in most cases the police and the legal system stood against the women. "Opposition from the community is expected in cases of inter-caste or...
04:27 AM, Jul 21, 2012
New Delhi: Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates "desi" cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says. Even 10 years ago, romantic novels spun stories about a man and one woman, whose sacrosanct monogamous love twisted and turned its way to the altar after epic struggles. Brazen romantic love as a subject of mass fiction was...
01:54 PM, May 16, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
London: A woman dentist in Poland is facing jail after she allegedly pulled out all her former boyfriend's teeth because he dumped her for another woman. Anna Mackowiak, 34, took revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic with toothache just days after breaking up with her, the Daily Mail reported. She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked all his teeth out. She...
07:34 AM, Apr 29, 2012
We, as adults, often reminisce about our adolescence with fondness. Those great years with no worry about life and career, the first crush, the first ...
11:48 AM, Mar 28, 2012
London: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian says she still believes in the power of love. The 31-year-old, who split from basketball player Kris Humphries last October after just 72 days of marriage, is still hopeful of falling in love again, reported Showbizspy. "I learned so much, and the things I care about in my life have completely changed. I still believe in love. I am in love with love. I...
01:56 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Nagpur: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Friday said live-in relationships must be discouraged in the country as it is 'against humanity and Indian culture'. "The Sangh is against live-in relationships because it is against humanity, and also against the Indian traditions and culture," RSS joint secretary Dattatraya Hosbale said, speaking to reporters on the first day of 'Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha', the outfit's highest decision-making body. Live-in relationships should be...
06:12 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Ghaziabad: Batting for "live-in relationships", Team Anna member and former Union minister Shanti Bhushan has said people should accept it in the context of changing society rather than protest. "Social values are changing fast and we should accept it (live-in relationships) rather to protest or go against these values," Bhushan, who was here to attend a function last evening, said. Referring to the Assembly polls' results in five states, he...
06:01 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Nagpur: Encouraged by a Supreme Court verdict, making live-in relationships legal and inspired by a recent meet of senior citizens in Ahmedabad, in search of a life partner, elders in Nagpur have decided to give the idea a go. A group of senior citizens under the banner of 'Jyeshtha Nagrik Liv-In Relationship Mandal', led by a former banker Arvind Godbole hit on the idea to float an organisation for helping...
12:24 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Despite legal legitimacy, live-in relationships are largely perceived to be immoral and it is a fad visible only in urban areas, a Delhi court observed on Tuesday while dubbing it as "infamous western cultural product". In remarks that may stoke a controversy, Additional Sessions Judge Surinder S Rathi said, "Traditionally peaking, live-in relationships were alien to our nation till late. Even today it is fad which is visible...
07:58 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Writing about relationships is not an easy task. The writing has to come from a personal place, known and sometimes unknown to the writer. While reading 'Overwinter', I had mixed feelings - sometimes of joy but mostly of sadness and Ratika Kapur, intelligently has managed to evoke these emotions in her readers. 'Overwinter' is not an easy book to forget. It has been two days since I have finished it...
02:30 PM, Jan 12, 2012
London: Predictive text, a marvel of mobile phones that has made it quicker and easier to communicate with people, has been blamed for errors that can sabotage relationships by leaving users fuming. Predictive texting is a facility that makes SMSing faster especially for phones with non-qwerty keyboard. The latest submissions to the DamnYouAutoCorrect website show how the simple predictive text misspelling of the words 'at Pam's' resulted in a very...
11:41 AM, Jan 02, 2012
