I came across this brilliant TED talk by Renny Gleeson a few weeks back and it made me very thoughtful about how our social environment has changed over the years. Due to technology & social networks many of us are no longer inside our relationships but outside looking in. No doubt this would have occurred in the past but now technology & the environment support us in viewing/sharing our relationships rather than enjoying & participating in them. Check out Renny’s talk & let me know in the comments how you feel about his perspective. Its funny & enjoyable to watch whilst making a statement about our technological social life.

Maybe we are living the geek’s version of being social and in relationship?  As you know a high percentage of geeks are intraverted????  So we may now be living an introverted extroversion????  See an old post of mine that was published in the book Blog08 extrovert and introvert matches.

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How do dating sites measure their successes? It appears that their systems can’t identify how successful they are at matching couples?

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Would love to hear about how successful you have been on the sites?  Let me know in the comments.

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Disposable relationships?  Instant Gratification?  What do you think?

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yep that’s right the scientists have discovered that a broken heart really does hurt, so now we are all vindicated!  You are now officially allowed to moan, scream & cry when you have a broken heart because you really are hurting!  (I’ve found chocolate to have wonderful healing effects for this particular ailment!)  This very pertinent revelation came from an article in the Telegraph called Why a Broken Heart Really does Hurt compiled from research done by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”  Margaret Mitchell

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