Help find the web’s best missed connections!
There’s a new feature on Missed Connections to help find the web’s favorite missed connections.
Underneath each missed connection ad you can vote for what you think of it, as shown in this screen grab:
To vote, click on the icons that are meant to be pictures of a hand giving the thumbs (you’ll be asked to login or create a new account – if you’re on facebook you can safely use your facebook account). The hand will turn green as shown in the picture above once your vote has been counted.
For now there are three categories you can vote in; Romantic, Funny, and Interesting. This is just a first stab at the categories and they will evolve as needed.
Once there are a good number of votes on the site then we’ll publish charts of the most funny missed connections, most romantic, and most interesting. You can vote a missed connection for more than one category if you can’t make up your mind.
Feel free to contact us with any category or voting ideas you may have.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on February 1st, 2010 | Categorized as Fun, Site news
Funny missed connections
Send me any funny missed connections you find on your Internet travels so they can be published on the missed connections blog for the enjoyment of everyone here.
If you find a good missed connection please go ahead and e-mail the link in to eliot@missedconnections.com or use our contact form. You’ll be credited on the blog if we publish your link (unless you don’t want to be).
Thanks!
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on January 30th, 2010 | Categorized as Fun, Site news
Craigslist missed connections – how to give it your best shot
Craigslist has a vibrant missed connections community. This community is one of the reasons I decided to set up Missed Connections.
If you post a missed connection to craigslist, which I recommend you do if you’re looking for someone, also post to the other missed connection sites, including ourselves, to give yourself the best shot of meeting that special someone again.
The good thing about the other missed connection sites is that they don’t have craigslist’s expiry policy.
I think craigslist NYC missed connection personal ads now expire after a week or perhaps a fortnight (it used to be 6 weeks). This advice is especially important if you are posting a missed connection that happened a few years ago, because the object of your affection is less likely to check craigslist in the 2 week window after you post, compared to checking at some point in the following few months/years. Your best bet is to post to all sites and re-post to craigslist everytime your post expires.
Good luck with your missed connections!
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on January 23rd, 2010 | Categorized as Advice
Missed connections sites on wikipedia
Some of you would have read this advice on the blog before, so sorry for repeating it.
For the benefit of those that haven’t heard this before, a good way to boost your chances of reuniting with a missed connection is to post to as many missed connection sites as possible.
So as well as posting here on MissedConnections.com, also post to the missed connection websites listed on wikipedia here.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on January 18th, 2010 | Categorized as Advice
Super-Hero Missed Connections
Chris Sims has put together a few superhero missed connections on Comics Alliance, be sure to read each of the “its NOT ok to contact this user….” lines.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on January 14th, 2010 | Categorized as Fun
Reddit plug and proof
I plugged Missed Connections on Reddit yesterday on Something I made and was kindly and fairly asked to provide proof that I run the site:
eliotsykes on Reddit is me, honest
If you’ve not checked out Reddit yet, consider taking a look and start spreading karma, there’s a great community there.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on January 13th, 2010 | Categorized as Site news
Gumtree Missed Connections gone! Don’t panic, we’re here…
So as of 5th January 2010, Gumtree missed connections are no more. I’d love to say that’s because they were so dedicated to reuniting missed connections they decided to forward their missed connections community over here but unfortunately no.
With Gumtree’s MCs section gone that pretty much leaves Craigslist and us as the major missed connection sites.
That’s good news for us all, our site will grow as a result, and because you’ll only need to post your missed connection to just two sites to give yourself the best shot at reconnecting with that special someone.
For new users, just search for missed connections in your town/city/postcode/village using the search box at the top of this page.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on January 11th, 2010 | Categorized as Advice, News
New Shakespearean Missed Connection
New Shakespearean Missed Connection from inst-msgs.com with Phil Van Hest
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on December 4th, 2009 | Categorized as Fun
Shakespearean Missed Connections video
The missed connections bit is the first couple of minutes that’ll give missed connection addicts a smile, the latter part are secret tweets (some of which aren’t quite so happy making).
Source: inst-msgs.com
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on November 20th, 2009 | Categorized as Fun
Sit by the subway/tube/metro door for more missed connections
Taken from the last paragraph of a recent Slate article on the psychology of travelling underground:
Has the era of the electronically immersed commuter, oblivious to all around him, lost in his playlists, signaled a decline in subway psychology? Not that I can find. One recent study conducted by officials at the Paris Metro—which looked at “missed connection” ads placed by urbanites looking for love in the city—found that the Metro “is without doubt the foremost producer of urban tales about falling in love.” The seats closest to the door, it seemed, offered the best opportunities for falling in love with the proper stranger. “The Metro is not the emotional desert, the social vacuum, that we sometimes believe it to be,” observed the chief of the Paris Metro. Indeed, whether bystanders or participants, we’re all part of an ongoing experiment.
So, sit on the seats closest to the door to boost your chances of having a missed connection. Better still, at the moment you have that connection, grab some courage, get off your bum and talk to the person so it doesn’t ever become a missed connection! (But if it does we’re here for you 
)
Photo credit: Thanks to Annie Mole for this excellent Gingerbread Man on the tube (read the full not quite fairytale story here on Annie’s blog)
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on November 19th, 2009 | Categorized as Advice
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