The New York Times published an article last week, in advance of Valentine’s Day, called “Love in the Time of Twitter” by Natasha Singer. The article references a "new research effort by two computer scientists who exempted how the soon-to-be-married used Twitter”. That study purports to "examine Twitter as a platform for sharing updates about major life events, and in particular, we focus on the major life event of engagement. Engagement is interesting because it is an event

There’s been a lot of talk about confidence lately; particularly in women. Just about every argument I’ve heard has said, “women want to be liked”. Well, guess what, EVERYONE want’s to be liked. It’s human nature…it’s why we all remember middle school as being so awful. The desire to be liked is not a women’s issue, its a human issue. So how do we overcome that issue? Many would argue that respect is more important than being liked. Many would also argue that making the right