2008 Woodie Awards
No. 2 train, brown hair, red purse: looking for you
Lisa Marie Basile
Issue date: 4/30/08 Section: Features
Everyone is falling in love on the way to school. They're imagining their weddings on the way to work. And everyone is hoping for a tryst, but nobody says a word.
On April 13, a woman posted an ad in the Chicago Reader. She wrote,"I saw you everyday for two years. I loved you more than you could ever possibly understand. You were the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with."
And on Subwaycrush.com, a Web site dedicated to connecting strangers who shared a missed connection on any NYC subway line, a person who uses the two train wrote, "I fall in love at least once everyday. Look for me sporting the big D&G glasses groovin' to the days tunes while I fall in love with the city every morning."
Missed Connections, as dubbed by Craigslist.com, doesn't provide the traditional form of meeting people, but its popularity is certainly increasing. These forms of connecting use people-seeking ads to meet the object of their silent affections.
Typically called, I saw you or Missed Connections, the individuals submit posts seeking other strangers. Whether they express the romantic notions of strangers doomed to part for good or whether they just express a general sexual or mental interest, the number of people looking for love, friendship or lamenting the missed chance to speak to a stranger is becoming a popular component of Internet use.
The Missed Connections on Craigslist.com reveal a world of lovestruck travelers, usually by subway, who fall in love with the bleary eyed "hipster with skinny jeans and arm tats," according to one Craigslist posting, and the redheaded "corporate American bitch," who "promised not to be as lame" as she looked.
Hundreds of posts occur every day, burying one ad on top of the next. With the phenomenon becoming so popular, it may even have the adverse effect; if so many people are seeking so many others, how will the silent R train passenger ever meet the girl of his dreams?
Instead of employing methods of personal contact, such as simply saying hello, people are exhausting their online resources that allow us to stay an Internet's distance away from having to putting ourselves on the line in person. Missed Connections may be exacerbating the use of technology to meet people. With the use of AIM, iChat and social networking sites, people seem to be hiding behind their Internet personas, but Missed Connections users attempt to actually bridge those gaps by hoping to meet the strangers.
On April 13, a woman posted an ad in the Chicago Reader. She wrote,"I saw you everyday for two years. I loved you more than you could ever possibly understand. You were the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with."
And on Subwaycrush.com, a Web site dedicated to connecting strangers who shared a missed connection on any NYC subway line, a person who uses the two train wrote, "I fall in love at least once everyday. Look for me sporting the big D&G glasses groovin' to the days tunes while I fall in love with the city every morning."
Missed Connections, as dubbed by Craigslist.com, doesn't provide the traditional form of meeting people, but its popularity is certainly increasing. These forms of connecting use people-seeking ads to meet the object of their silent affections.
Typically called, I saw you or Missed Connections, the individuals submit posts seeking other strangers. Whether they express the romantic notions of strangers doomed to part for good or whether they just express a general sexual or mental interest, the number of people looking for love, friendship or lamenting the missed chance to speak to a stranger is becoming a popular component of Internet use.
The Missed Connections on Craigslist.com reveal a world of lovestruck travelers, usually by subway, who fall in love with the bleary eyed "hipster with skinny jeans and arm tats," according to one Craigslist posting, and the redheaded "corporate American bitch," who "promised not to be as lame" as she looked.
Hundreds of posts occur every day, burying one ad on top of the next. With the phenomenon becoming so popular, it may even have the adverse effect; if so many people are seeking so many others, how will the silent R train passenger ever meet the girl of his dreams?
Instead of employing methods of personal contact, such as simply saying hello, people are exhausting their online resources that allow us to stay an Internet's distance away from having to putting ourselves on the line in person. Missed Connections may be exacerbating the use of technology to meet people. With the use of AIM, iChat and social networking sites, people seem to be hiding behind their Internet personas, but Missed Connections users attempt to actually bridge those gaps by hoping to meet the strangers.
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