From relationship status updates on Facebook to sending flirts on Twitter, it's simply not enough for some to trumpet romantic feelings privately to a significant other: they're inviting those within and outside of their online circles to share the love.

With the upcoming launch of the Canada Kiss Map on Valentine's Day, individuals fond of puckering up in public can reveal an even more personal side to their romantic lives - albeit anonymously.

The Google-powered map will allow people to post a short backstory and pinpoint locations of where they've enjoyed memorable smooches.

Creator Chris Kay Fraser is also behind the Toronto Kiss Map, which launched last summer. She said she came up with the concept after sitting grumpily on a streetcar on a rainy day, and looked out the window to see a place where she had enjoyed a memorable kiss.

"I felt my whole day turn around," Fraser recalled in an interview. "It just was such a lovely moment to remember that. And I thought: 'I wish there was some way I could see the city through those stories and through those eyes.'"

Fraser, 32, sees the map as a storytelling project and a way for people to share their romantic tales with others. But the creative writing coach said she's often found topics around love, connection and intimacy are the hardest for people to write about.

"I will often have groups almost turn against me when I bring classes to those topics, so I didn't know how (the map) would work. I didn't know whether it would get picked up in the way that I thought it might when I first put it out," said Fraser, founder of Firefly Creative Writing.

"But again, because the stories have to be under 500 characters and because it's anonymous it makes that space safe and people have responded to it in incredible ways."

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