{"id":499,"date":"2015-10-08T06:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T06:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2015-10-08T06:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T06:10:27","slug":"serendipity-via-facebook-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/499\/serendipity-via-facebook-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity via Facebook Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nowadays, it’s not so uncommon for couples to find each other\u00a0via a dating site and have it lead to marriage. \u00a0Facebook isn’t a dating site, but it is plausible to meet via Facebook…but who would think to have a Facebook bug connect you with your soulmate? \u00a0It’s what happened to\u00a0South Arkansas man Schuyler Benson when he logged into Facebook on his flip phone in 2009, and Facebook logged him automatically into a stranger’s account, Celeste Zendler from Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n

Benson and Zendler\u00a0chatted to try to figure out how to logout of the Facebook glitch and found out they had more in common that just a Facebook bug. \u00a0One thing led to another, and they eventually met in person. \u00a0And a few years later, they married – yes, each other!\u00a0 It’s like a modern day Disney fairytale that most movie watchers would probably write off as just that, fairytale and fiction, not really going to happen in real life. \u00a0But it did. \u00a0They are now happily ever after for 6 years since that Facebook bug started it all. \u00a0To celebrate the anniversay,\u00a0Benson posted an\u00a0Imgur series<\/a>\u00a0telling their story.<\/p>\n

\"matchmaker-facebook-bug\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2009 while living in South Arkansas, I used a flip-phone to log into my Facebook account. I opened the browser, went to facebook.com, and wasn’t even given a chance to enter any login information. I was already logged in. I had to make several posts in order to find out I wasn’t logged into my own account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that’s a Facebook bug they’re not complaining about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nowadays, it’s not so uncommon for couples to find each other\u00a0via a dating site and have it lead to marriage. \u00a0Facebook isn’t a dating site, but it is plausible to meet via Facebook…but who would think to have a Facebook … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244,51],"tags":[310,273,65,309,311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}