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Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise for the first time in roughly a decade and online dating could be a contributing factor.
‘Swiping right’ and knowing very little about the person you’re meeting online, could be factors in the latest numbers.
Reported cases of three STD’s — chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis — have increased for the first time since 2006, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Young people ages 15 to 24 account for nearly half of the 20 million new cases of STD’s each year, which cost the United States an annual $16 billion.
With more and more Americans turning to online and mobile dating sites, it’s hard to know how much of a role that behavior may play, but the nature of these sites means cases of disease are also hard to track, says Dr. Peter Beilenson, CEO of Evergreen Health.
“Public health succeeds by tracking the partner and getting that person treated. And with online dating and people not even knowing who the person is, if you come down with chlamydia or gonorrhea, let’s say, and you want to make sure you treat the partner, there’s no way of knowing who the partner is.”
It's the way you tell them! Men who are great storytellers are seen as more attractive and important to women | Dating Scams 101
It’s the way you tell them! Men who are great storytellers are seen as more attractive and important to women
Some of the profiles said the person ‘often tells really good stories…he makes the characters and settings come alive,’ while others rated their ability as average or simply didn’t mention the person’s ability to tell a tale.
The study, published in the journal Personal Relationships, found men were not bothered by whether women can tell stories and stronger storytellers didn’t tempt men.
While women weren’t interested in a man’s ability to spin a yarn if they were looking for a quick tryst, they were attracted to the talent when looking for a long-term partner.
In the second part of the experiment, participants were asked whether the person described in the profile would make a good husband or wife. They were also asked to rank their status.
Both men and women rated those who said they were good storytellers as being of higher status than non-storytellers.
Women found men with this quality more attractive than those who didn’t mention the ability to tell stories, but it made no difference to the romantic perceptions of men.
This suggests females have evolved to seek out men with this skill – one of many practical resources that may have meant the difference between life and death in ancient times.
Storytelling is the oldest form of narrative communication known to humans in every culture and storytellers tended to play an important role in society by imparting knowledge and experience, or simply being the centre of attention.
It is possible women are drawn to storytellers because they may show leadership qualities and in ancient times, leaders would possibly have been more likely to protect them and their children.
The ability to tell a story may also hint at a person’s intelligence and charisma, although this was not tested in the study.
The researchers wrote: ‘Storytelling ability appears to increase perceived status and thus helps men attract long-term partners,’ so expect the trait to start popping up in Tinder profiles soon.
However, she said half of romantic relationships are formed between people who live relatively near each other and the greater the geographical distance between two people, the less likely they are to get together.
Proximity matters because it increases the chances people will interact and come to feel part of the same ‘social unit’.
Second, appearance does matter. People perceived to be physically attractive get asked out on dates more often and receive more messages on online dating sites.
Once social interaction takes place, other traits come into their own. It turns out that both women and men value traits such as, warmth, a good sense of humour, and understanding in a potential partner – in other words, we prefer people we perceive as nice.
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The recently updated Cisco WebEx for iPad app with new Box integration brings together two very powerful collaboration platforms from Cisco and Box. In fact, it delivers one of the most efficient and productive mobile collaboration experiences in the market.
Tapping into open APIs on both sides, the new WebEx and Box integration enables mobile Apple iPad users the ability to share and collaborate in a live WebEx meeting with content hosted in Box. Being a heavy mobile user myself, I couldn’t wait to give this new feature a road test and get a better understanding of how it will make an impact in the enterprise marketplace; which is quickly being dominated by players like Google apps, Salesforce.com and Office 365.
I’m delighted to report that over the past few weeks I’ve grown to love this new integration, which has quickly enhanced my own mobile collaboration and productivity. The first thing that struck me was how much Cisco has stepped up the focus on the overall user experience design.
The new Cisco WebEx for iPad 5.0 update delivers a simple setup process to enable the Box integration and a one button ‘share content’ option right in the center of the meeting window. This makes it elegantly easy to get started and collaborate with ease.
The frictionless sharing of content such as Word docs and spreadsheets, during my adhoc meetings, has quickly fueled an even greater adoption of the already action packed WebEx app. That said, I’m still a tad underwhelmed when attempting to use the new integration to host a formal presentation in a native PowerPoint file format.
It appears the Cisco WebEx for iPad app struggles to render complex multilayered slides with embedded animations and transitions which has been an ongoing battle in general for PowerPoint presentations when trying to share in third-party apps and platforms. On the flip side, sharing simple and preformatted presentations in a PDF format looks and works exceptionally well.
From an emerging collaboration strategy perspective, this integration is of significant interest. It underscores a shift taking place within an enterprise market where APIs are now playing a critical role in accelerating innovative, new, muti-vendor collaboration solutions.
It’s also interesting to see how quickly Box is transforming into an enterprise collaboration powerhouse while leveraging it’s ‘born in the cloud’ roots as a hosted file sharing service with native APIs in their core DNA. I’ve seen the Box impact on collaboration happen first hand within my own team at CDW where my fellow coworkers, with an almost shocking fluidity, began heavily using Box and quickly adopted the native commenting and activity stream to become our de facto intra-team social collaboration platform.
It’s also exciting to see Cisco’s social collaboration strategy shift away from trying to build its own platform into this new focus of bringing social activity streams, such as this Box integration, into the core collaboration solution stack. The exciting organic adoption of new collaboration capabilities within Box brings awareness that social collaboration is often most compelling as a social layer extended into business line workflows This can be seen from our WebEx + Box solution,versus trying to force users into some new social intranet portal.
This is just the beginning to an exciting year in 2014. I fully expect to see even more fantastic collaboration solution integrations as vendors like Cisco and Box continue to raise the bar in enterprise collaboration solutions fueled by the emerging API economy. It’ll be very interesting to see how existing enterprise collaboration platforms like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 will be impacted as they shift to support similar API integrated solutions.
As much as I like the idea of open API, and interconnected cloud. I have a hard time to believe this an actual use case.
Most web conference are a one-way presentation. Someone present content to someone else. That's rarely live collaboration on a file. And even if that happens, what's the probably of both participants to be familiar enough with box to have an account available to login and start "collaborating".