Internet Coincidences!

[TheBrew]

For dating purposes, if it takes me longer than 20 minutes to get to you, you live too far away.

Pfft. Amateur. You'll never find someone that way.

Well, to be fair, if I go any farther than 20 minutes away, I have at least 100 miles before I run into any kind of worthwhile civilization again. I'm not gonna find love in a random corn field.

Yeah I guess it depends on your location. I know that in the DC metro area I will regularly travel an hour to see friends. My fiance and I lived 30 minutes apart sans traffic.

 

[Kestra]

My friends met online and lived probably an hour away in the beginning. It was tough for awhile, but they worked it out and are now engaged and living together.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

So, I am a member of OKCupid.com, a dating site. I don't really use it for anything, but I signed up a few years ago and still get emails with "new matches."

A quick plug- I met my fiance on that site!

And for coincidences, one of the other women I was talking to turned out to be one of her best friends and ended up taking our engagement photos!

I met my current girlfriend on there, too. Great site, especially for people who are a bit off the beaten path (nerds, geeks, general weirdos, etc.)

 

[Kestra]

So, I am a member of OKCupid.com, a dating site. I don't really use it for anything, but I signed up a few years ago and still get emails with "new matches."

A quick plug- I met my fiance on that site!

And for coincidences, one of the other women I was talking to turned out to be one of her best friends and ended up taking our engagement photos!

I met my current girlfriend on there, too. Great site, especially for people who are a bit off the beaten path (nerds, geeks, general weirdos, etc.)

Yeah, that's where my friends met as well.

 

[starrchild]

We met at a scifi convention in Houston. It was mostly fanfic and I was into writing fanfic at the time. He was a volunteer--he frequently was asked to be the av guy at cons because he was such a techie and liked scifi.

However, neither one of us were aware that the con had recently turned into a fairly hardcore "slash" con and both of us were, well, horrified by some of the panels and discussion groups. I was asked by one of the women there if I would run some videos down to the av room. I did, and he was there, alone, as no one was there watching the shows. We sat and talked while the shows were playing and found that we liked a lot of the same things.

I left the con, thinking "I should've given that guy my number. Oh well, he probably wasn't that interested." When I got home, there was an email from one of the con organizers, saying "The computer guy really liked you. Can I give him your email?"

I answered "YES!" and the rest is history.

auntiehill, was that con RevelCon by chance?

 

[RoJoHen]

Try a thousand miles.

So you might pass up the love of your life because they live 40 mins away instead of 20? That's taking convenience to a whole other level! If it works, one of you can always move... best to keep your options open.

Not with these gas prices.

 

[auntiehill]

We met at a scifi convention in Houston. It was mostly fanfic and I was into writing fanfic at the time. He was a volunteer--he frequently was asked to be the av guy at cons because he was such a techie and liked scifi.

However, neither one of us were aware that the con had recently turned into a fairly hardcore "slash" con and both of us were, well, horrified by some of the panels and discussion groups. I was asked by one of the women there if I would run some videos down to the av room. I did, and he was there, alone, as no one was there watching the shows. We sat and talked while the shows were playing and found that we liked a lot of the same things.

I left the con, thinking "I should've given that guy my number. Oh well, he probably wasn't that interested." When I got home, there was an email from one of the con organizers, saying "The computer guy really liked you. Can I give him your email?"

I answered "YES!" and the rest is history.

auntiehill, was that con RevelCon by chance?

I...I...uh...have no idea about this "RevelCon" of which you speak. *cough*

 

[Satyrquaze]

On a slightly related topic, I find it funny when I discover that two or more of my facebook friends know eachother randomly.

Like one recent example is a friend (who is basically just an aquaintence that I basically know through friends) commented on the wall of a girl I met on OKCupid and tried to date several years ago (It didn't work out, but we've remained friends). I had no clue that they knew eachother, let alone how they might have met. I almost commented: "You guys know eachother??"

I ended up meeting quite a few guys and girls with similar interests on OKCupid, many of whom are now good friends of mine. I did however, stop visiting the site when I started dating my current girlfriend.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

On a slightly related topic, I find it funny when I discover that two or more of my facebook friends know eachother randomly.

Like one recent example is a friend (who is basically just an aquaintence that I basically know through friends) commented on the wall of a girl I met on OKCupid and tried to date several years ago (It didn't work out, but we've remained friends). I had no clue that they knew eachother, let alone how they might have met. I almost commented: "You guys know eachother??"

I ended up meeting quite a few guys and girls with similar interests on OKCupid, many of whom are now good friends of mine. I did however, stop visiting the site when I started dating my current girlfriend.

That happened to me once. I met this one girl on a message board back in 2001 or so. Later on, I met this other girl on OKCupid. When I friended the OKCupid girl on Facebook, it turned out the two of them were mutual friends--despite not living anywhere near each other. So weird. Turns out they were on some of the same writing sites and that's how they knew each other. Small world!

 

[Kestra]

That's just because you go for the same type of girls!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

That's just because you go for the same type of girls!

...Damaged but kinky?

 

[sojourner]

Someone really needs to alert Kevin Bacon about this thread.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I had to meet my wife the old fashion way. She was dating my best friend. They broke up. I didn't see her again for about 8 years, until she happened to stop by the bookstore I was working at to kill some time while getting a tire repaired.

 

[doubleohfive]

Proof that life really is like LOST:

Picture it, Los Angeles: 2008.

I'm talking to my friend Heidi back home. She's getting married and wants me to fly back for the wedding. I've got the money, I've got the time, I just can't get off work. Alternately, she tells me about a friend from grade school, K, who happens to live out here. You should meet up with her, she says, you guys would probably get along famously!

So I find K on facebook and friend her. But that's it. Nothing else. Meanwhile, a few weeks go by. My dad calls me and tells me about some guy he's been working with at the State Department who would be traveling to Lebanon soon, and who had told my dad about his sister who lives in LA. Between the two of them, they decided I needed to be friends with this girl and she with me. Sadly, my dad can't remember her name.

Fast forward to Easter, 2009. K writes a beautiful status update regarding the holiday and I comment on it - beautifully done. Within five minutes my dad is on the phone with me. "How do you know K?" he asks.

"I went to school with her! How do you know K?" I ask. Dad tells me, this is the girl whose brother he worked with at the State Department last fall. Weird.

But it gets better. K has an unusual name, and one I'm certain I'd come across before. So I did a quick google search. Lo and behold, she's the daughter of the same woman I knew - ten years earlier, when I was in college. Her mother, as it turns out, had been my first theater professor (Acting I baby!) in college.

I emailed Kaiulani that day and related all of this to her, and suggested we get together for coffee sometime. We've been friends ever since.