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‘Missed Connections’ Instagram account helps Salt Lakers looking for the ones who get away.
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Have you ever made eye contact with a cute stranger and could’ve sworn there was a mutual spark? Maybe you felt too shy to trade phone numbers or were too rushed to process the interaction, but you couldn’t seem to stop thinking about them. When Craigslist introduced its “Missed Connections” platform in 2000, users could write free personal ad-style entries online.
Salt Lake City’s page went live in 2004 and by 2007, Craiglist’s CEO Jim Buckmaster told Reuters that several marriages were forged through “Missed Connections.” Around this time, Amber Marie’s interest in “Missed Connections” began…
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