Julie Spira

Remember the scenario. Boy meets girl. Boy becomes attracted to girl. Girl gets infatuated and dreams about their future. They go on a movie date and hold hands. He takes her...

There once was a time where pet owners could sign up for an online dating site called Date My Pet to express their love for their pets. According to TodayShow.com, new sites such as MatchPuppy.com for your dogs to meet other canine friends and SpotWag, a...

When the invitation arrived to attend the 29th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards with a dress code listed as "Creative Black Tie," I quickly sent a tweet to find out what others thought...

We're all moving at such a fast digital pace to fit into 140 characters or less, making sure we leave enough room to share, like, retweet, pin, and post so we remain social media friendly with our friends and followers. Stuffing abbreviations and emoticons in IM messages and texts is...

You've probably seen the commercials of happy success couples who've met online and may have read the statistics on how more couples are meeting in online dating sites than in bars these days. Most singles who do join dating sites hope they won't be spending a lifetime sentence as a...

This week, the Attorney General of the State of California announced the Joint Statement of Key Principles for Online Dating Safety.

Online dating sites eHarmony, Match.com and Spark Networks have agreed to help their members date more safely.

As part of this agreement, sites will educate members on...

For the past 100 years, the Girl Scouts of America have embraced their "scout's honor." This week, March 12-16, 2012 has been declared "Girl Scouts Week" in honor of their centennial celebration. Today's Girl Scouts have evolved into more than just selling cookies and collecting badges.

The Wall...

If you've been texting with friends at work and at home, what happens when you take that habit into a business meeting?

In this video, you'll learn some of the Rules of Netiquette for mobile phone use and for texting in a business communication.

1. Don't send a...

It's official. According to a team of five researchers, online dating has lost its stigma. The report was published on Monday in the February issue in the journal, Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

This is good news for singles in the U.S. as the research analysis...

'Sexting' isn't just for political scandals. Romance publisher Harlequin polled a group of women aged 18 to 40 to see how they felt about the marriage of love and technology. Their findings in their 2012 Romance Report showed that 43% of the women admitted to having engaged in 'sexting.' Taking...

If you're thinking of proposing this Valentine's Day, you might be in the minority.

Just in time for Valentine's, online dating site Match.com has released their second annual in-depth Singles in America study, which confirms the growing trend that the need to wed is on the decline.

It's time to put your best digital foot forward with five simple rules of netiquette for sending email, posting on Facebook and Twitter, and sharing content on your favorite social networking sites.

Netiquette Dos and Dont's

1. Do... Use spell check and check your grammar before pushing the send button.

2. Don't... Correct someone's grammar or spelling unless they've asked for a critique.

3. Do... Use a professional signature line so the recipient knows who the email is coming from.

4. Don't... Send an email when you're tired or upset, you can't take it back.

5. Don't... Type in all caps. In netiquette terms, it means you're yelling, and who wants to be screamed at online, or offline.

Have you ever broken the rules of netiquette? I welcome you to share your netiquette pet peeves.

Julie Spira is a netiquette expert and author of "The Rules of Netiquette: How to Mind Your Manners on the Web." For more information on netiquette and digital etiquette, visit rulesofnetiquette.com and like us at facebook.com/rulesofnetiquette.
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It was a lucky day on Friday the 13th for start-up online dating site Hitch.me. The site, which launched on January 13, 2012, received a welcome with a nice write-up in Mashable. Hitch.me was created with the hope of adding authenticity to online dating profiles by focusing on...

If you're tired of coming up empty-handed while looking for love online, chances are you're suffering from a relationship syndrome called ODF, the acronym for online dating fatigue.

Online dating fatigue, digital dating fatigue, Internet dating fatigue, call it what you want, but it's...

There's a new online dating player in town that hopes to bring social dating to a new level. Jazzed, created by eHarmony, announced their official launch with the goal of making it easier and more fun for singles to socialize and date in a Web 2.0 World.

With...

There are 12 options for your defining your relationship status on Facebook. Starting with none, (does everyone really need to know?) and now including single, in a relationship, engaged, married, it's complicated, in an open relationship, widowed, separated, divorced, in a civil union, and in a domestic partnership, I wonder...

There's no digital debate needed. Using your mobile phone while driving to talk or text is against the law in most states. It's also bad netiquette, if there's another passenger in the car. I've gone on record as saying, "No text is worth dying for." It's not about...

Jill Alexander isn't your ordinary fashion reseller. She's the founder of The Divorcée Sale, where their tagline is "Her Past. Your Future."

I invited Jill into my closet to get her opinion on what should stay, and what should go as I move on to another chapter in my life....

Most of us are enjoying the digital fruits of our social media efforts while building our business and brands.

So what happens when one day you find someone else using your logo, which you have taken the time to file a copyright or trademark for, as his or her primary...

Many of us grew up knowing there were 64 colors to choose from in the Crayola crayon box. Now our digital playing field in the United States includes over 1500 online dating sites with a variety of flavors, serving over 25 million singles every month.

"Worldwide, over 122...