Blog Posts by Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

Seriously, do couples really need to share everything on Facebook? (Photo: Thinkstock)As if it's not enough to post your relationship status on online for the entire internet to see, Facebook is taking things a step further, whether you want them to or not.

Their latest privacy-invading feature, rolled out late last week, creates a special "couples" page for you and whomever you've listed as your partner in a relationship -- and Facebook has already set it all up for you, filling it with photos and conversations in which you've both been tagged.

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People aren't pleased.

"Horrible idea! I will never list my relationship status on Facebook for sure now," Andrea Bethard commented on the social media site.

"DISLIKE!" wrote April Geffre Irwin. "If I wanted a couples page, we should have created one together."

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Wondering what your relationship's new online shrine looks like? Click on Facebook.com/us. (Single? No worries. Facebook is sure that

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Former General Petraeus with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, in July 2011. (Photo: AP) Bill Clinton had Monica Lewinsky. John Edwards had Rielle Hunter. Anthony Weiner had, well, the internet. Now, with the news that highly respected retired General David Petraeus resigned as CIA director after having an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, women are wondering: What makes these men think they won't get caught? And why do women keep having affairs with these guys to begin with?

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"Like the 'tall, dark, and handsome' cliche, some women are attracted to men who possess the three qualities of wealth, celebrity, and influence," Dr. Terri Orbuch, director of a 25-year-long study on marriage and divorce funded by the National Institute of Health, told Yahoo! Shine in an interview. "From a purely biological perspective, for females success implies that the male will be a good provider and offer security. Of course, this makes little sense in the case of a married man, but it is nevertheless part of the Read More »from Men in Power: Why Do Women Have Affairs with Men like Petraeus?

Mean Girls at Work With women graduating from college and entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, they're discovering that they still need help learning to navigate one of the trickiest aspects of their careers: working with other women.

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"Women to women relationships are naturally intense," Kathi Elster and Katherine Crowley write in the introduction to their new book, "Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal." "While it’s natural to assume that most women support other women and want them to succeed, it’s not always the case. In fact, studies show that many women believe it is their female associates who are most threatened by the prospect of a woman in power."

Not all mean girls are intentionally mean, Crowley, a psychotherapist, points out. "We’ve come up with seven categories of mean girls in our book because we’ve learned that some women are intentionally mean, while others just say and do things that other women find Read More »from Dealing with Mean Girls at Work: It's a Professional Issue, Not a Personal One

Sophia's letter to the President, which her dad posted on Facebook. (Photo: Jonathan Bailey/Facebook)Sophia Bailey-Klugh had already written to President Barack Obama once before, to invite him to dinner at her house. He didn't RSVP, so when the 10-year-old with two dads decided to send him a note thanking him for his support of gay marriage, she wasn't expecting a reply.

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"Dear Barack Obama," she wrote. "It's Sophia Bailey Klugh, your friend who invited you to dinner. You don't remember okay that's fine. But I just wanted to tell you that I am so glad you agree that two men can love each other, because I have two dads and they love each other, but at school kids think that it's gross and weird."

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"Totally unprompted, our amazing 10 year old decided to write this letter to Barack Obama," her dad, Jonathan Bailey, wrote when he posted her note on Facebook. He and is partner, Triton Klugh (whom Sophia calls Papa)

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Happy couple: The most-popular social media image of all time. (Photo: Scout Tufankjian/Obama for America)It was an intimate snapshot of a sweet celebration: Minutes after the networks called the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama on Tuesday night, the Obama for America campaign posted a picture of him hugging his wife along with a simple message: "Four more years." Within minutes, it became the most popular post in the history of Twitter and the most-liked image in the history of Facebook, shared more than 804,000 times, marked as a favorite by more than 289,500 Twitter users, and "liked" by more than 3.2 million Facebook friends.

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The simple shot of a happy husband and wife was a surprise to people who may have been expecting a grand portrait of a newly re-elected president and his people. But no one was more surprised than the woman who took the photo back in August.

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Scout Tufankjian, a photojournalist who has been focusing her lens on Obama's

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Residents wait on line to collect free gasoline the day after a Nor'Easter storm in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in the Rockaway neighborhood on November 8, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. Today was the first day gasoline became available for residents in the neighborhood following Sandy. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)This post was written by David Fagin, a New Jersey-based musician and blogger who writes about pop culture at The Nosh Pit and The Huffington Post.

The worst part about a storm like this is the chaos it creates regarding the chain of communication. Nearly two weeks after the ocean breached the shores of Far Rockaway Beach and wreaked havoc throughout the entire New York area, hundreds upon hundreds of the sick and elderly still have no idea when their heat will return. And everyone's blaming everyone else. Meanwhile, the seniors continue to freeze.

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Being part of a crew documenting the aftermath of Sandy, we were asked to visit the JASA (Jewish Association Serving the Aged) Senior Housing Projects along the beach in Far Rockaway today. The reason they asked us is because practically every other media outlet has ignored their pleas for help.

Twenty-story high apartment there buildings have 16 units on each floor -- a total

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Zoe Everett, seen here with her family in a photo she posted at WishUponAHero.com, is raising her siblings on her own after their parents were killed in Superstorm Sandy.Compassionate strangers banded together this week to raise more than $56,000 to help a 19-year-old college student whose parents were killed in Superstorm Sandy, leaving her to raise her three younger siblings on her own.

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Zoe Everett of Randolph, N.J., posted her story at the Wish Upon a Hero Foundation website.

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"I was studying for an exam, waiting out Hurricane Sandy and then I received a phone call," Zoe, a student at Rutgers University, wrote at WishUponAHero.com. "At 11 p.m. on October 29th, I found out both of my parents had been killed. They were driving the pickup truck home with my two little brothers sleeping in the back seat."

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Richard Everett, 54, and his wife, Elizabeth, 46, were driving through Mendham Township when winds from Superstorm Sandy sent a 100-foot-tall tree crashing down onto the cab

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Are myths stopping you from getting a flu shot? (Photo: Thinkstock)We're in the thick of cold and flu season, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that seasonal flu shots prevented 5 million cases of influenza last year and helped keep 40,000 people out of the hospital in 2011. Still, more than half of the population of the United States avoids getting an influenza vaccine each year, usually because they're afraid that the flu shot itself will give them the flu.

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It's one of the biggest myths about the flu shot out there. "It's impossible to get the flu, and it's impossible to spread the flu" from the injection, Dr. Dennis Cunningham, an infectious disease specialist at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio, told LiveScience.com

The confusion may come from the fact that some of the vaccine's side effects—low-grade fever, body aches, and soreness at the injection site—feel like flu-like symptoms. But, "the soreness is often caused by a person's immune system making protective

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