Facebook has long been an important tool for dating – all tremulous friend requests, artfully arranged pictures and poetic status updates – but it appears even its glitches can be romantic.
Just ask Schuler Benson and Celeste Zendler, a US couple who tied the knot earlier this year after meeting online due to a Facebook malfunction.
In October 2009 a Facebook mobile glitch logged Benson into the account of someone he had never met, one Celeste Zendler. After they realised what was going on, the two got chatting via status updates on Zendler’s Facebook page, trying to work out how to log Benson out.
That led to a friend request, which led to more chatting, which led to love. The two finally met in person in June 2013 and that autumn Zendler moved to Arkansas to live with Benson. On June 21 2015 they got married.
“I found my partner, my best friend, my great love via a simple glitch in social media,” Benson says. “There are awful things in this world, but sometimes there’s beauty, too. This is my beauty.”
Amen to that.