Site offers relationship gossip

Monday, March 2, 2009

Gossip now has its own Web site.

KissandDish.com, a social-networking relationship Web site that launched last month, serves as a forum for people to share their relationship highs, lows and everything in between. The site features 14 main writers, who are all at different stages in their own relationships.

Photo illustration by Jerry Wang

Co-creator Kristen Ricordati said each writer contributed a new article once each week. Users can write about their own love lives while remaining anonymous. Users can also submit questions to a dating therapist.

Ricordati said she wanted to start a site where people could give relationship advice. She wanted to gear the site toward college students and described it as a way to share stories, connect with other people or simply be a “fly on the wall” of another person’s love life.

“People could really use a site like this,” Ricordati said. “They could be their own Carrie Bradshaw. They could be their own relationship advice columnist.”

Tiffany Harrell, Kansas City, Kan., senior, who met her boyfriend on Facebook, said she would be interested in a Web site like KissandDish.com to read about what was going on in other people’s relationships.

“Maybe they are going through some of the same things you are going through and have advice on how to handle that situation,” Harrell said.

Jeff Hall, communications studies professor who has also worked for EHarmony, said a Web site like KissandDish was a natural outcome of the Facebook and MySpace phenomenon.

“I have been surprised by the degree to which students are willing to disclose their personal lives online,” Hall said. “It’s fundamentally changing the way that people interact with others. People feel they are really connected with others without sharing more than a status update and a picture.”

Harrell said her generation was computer-orientated and had become reliant on that medium to communicate with others.

“We use Facebook to keep in touch with people instead of just calling them or talking to them and seeing what they are up to,” Harrell said. “It’s a sign of change in our generation.”

Ricordati said KissandDish was a modern relationship Web site. She said the appeal of the site was its ability to make users feel connected and less alone on the relationship journey.

“It’s people helping people,” Ricordati said. “You can learn from other people’s mistakes and triumphs.”

— — Edited by Grant Treaster

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