“What Happens on Relatious, Stays on Relatious”

You know how some people you follow on Twitter seem to forget that their posts are public? And sometime it’s just a little TMI? No one really needs to know about the details of your love life, however steamy or dull, so save the drama for yo’ mama… or for Relatious.

This new micro-blogging site is dedicated solely to relationships and love connections. Users have 400 characters to write about their triumphs and mishaps or ask for advice from fellow users. Like Facebook and many other community-based websites, each post can be “liked” and commented on by others.

The concept and application of Relatious is reminiscent of Yahoo! Answers + texts from last night, with a sprinkle of Craigslist’s Missed Connections. It gives readers a voyeuristic look at the scandalous lives of others, providing a fix of relationship gossip for us to live vicariously through (or to make us feel slightly better about our own love lives). However, like TFLN, it reeks a little of facetiousness; some posts are surely made up or highly exaggerated. I do feel bad for those who attempt to use this website for relationship advice, as it doesn’t really seem other users are taking their questions seriously and often give sarcastic, rude responses.

On the other hand, at least these people won’t be clogging up my Twitter stream.

—kelly