Is love losing its soul in the digital age?


Love, digitally: In issuing weekiversary posts, individuals are creating an identity and a story – a brand that they can market widely. - AFP

INSTAGRAM users have taken to issuing “weekiversary posts”, where they diligently mark the duration of their romances.

An article in The New York Times explained how weekiversary posts have the unintended – or very much intended – consequence of shaming people who are not in love.

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