Virtual Friends

Can You Fall in Love With Your Favorite TV Character?

Christine Huang | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Social Networks, Virtual Worlds, Entertainment, Virtual Friends, Otaku, Media News

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 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, The Extraordinaries, Online, Netsquared 2009, Virtual Friends, Netsquared, Frontlinesms, Media News

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 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Sharing, Psychology, Twitter, Virtual Friends, Online, Media News

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 11.07.2008 | 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, Living News

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 10.16.2008 | 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, Living News

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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