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Have Skype, Will Do International Business...

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 04.15.2012 | Business
Read More: Business, Virtualization, Virtual Friends, International-Business, International Business, Skype, Business News
Valerie Berset-Price

Unless homo sapiens mutate and our senses become muted, the face-to-face interaction will remain our favorite and most-needed way of building trust with one another. And trust, as we know, is the key ingredient of any long-lasting relationship.

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Please Unfriend My Husband

Annette Powers | Posted 12.04.2011 | Divorce
Read More: Marriage, Social Media, Adultery, Friends, Facebook, Divorce, Virtual Friends, Divorce News
Annette Powers

Why were so many of my friends still friends with my ex? I had wanted them to drop off his friend list suddenly and without warning, the way he had dropped out of our marriage.

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Will You Be My "Friend"?

Shira Hirschman Weiss | Posted 10.11.2011 | Home
Read More: Socialite, Friendship, Philanthropy, Esther "Coco" Silber, Friends, Virtual Reality, Virtual Friends, Online, Home News
Shira Hirschman Weiss

Facebook has redefined the word "Friend." According to the site, I have 531 such individuals and that number keeps changing. Should I believe the site when I only speak to three people per week other than family?

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Can You Fall in Love With Your Favorite TV Character?

Christine Huang | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Social Media, Social Networks, Virtual Worlds, Entertainment, Virtual Friends, Otaku, Media News
Christine Huang

New reports reveal a growing subculture of "2-D Lovers": grown adults in Japan that have found romantic love with their favorite characters from anime, manga, and video games.

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Netsquared 2009: Making the Virtual Proximal

Allen Gunn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Internet, The Extraordinaries, Online, Netsquared 2009, Virtual Friends, Netsquared, Frontlinesms, Media News
Allen Gunn

What the Netsquared conference really bears out is the essential role that live events still play in weaving the fabric of social networks.

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The Psychology of Sharing

Scott Lachut | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Sharing, Psychology, Twitter, Virtual Friends, Online, Media News
Scott Lachut

At some point the anonymity of the Internet transformed into a social networking clearinghouse of daily minutiae and most of us opted in. Is this the existential crisis of our modern age?

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Balancing Motherhood, Marriage and Friendship: An Interview With Allison Winn Scotch

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Allison Winn Scotch, Maintaining Friendships, Time, Living News, Relationships, Infertility, Motherhood, Random House, Female Friendships, Virtual Friends, Isolation, Time of My Life, Friendship by the Book, Marriage, Loneliness, 30-Something, Weinstein Company, Syle, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Time of Your Life tells the story of Jillian -- a thirty-something, married, suburban mother -- who suddenly sees her life playing out a different way than it did seven years ago, jumps to fix it, and takes the reader along for the ride

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The Friend I Never Met

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Female Friendships, Virtual Friends, Illness, Lori Hall Steele, Freelance Success, Lyme Disease, Charitable, Health, Freelance, Friendship Circles, Lou Gehrig?S Disease, Living, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Als, Asja, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

I feel very proud to be part of a writing community that has circled around a woman that many have only met once or twice, or like myself, only know virtually.

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