Unexplained Facebook Glitch Leads To Real-Life Wedding

An unexplained technical glitch on Facebook, where an Arkansas man found himself logged into the account of a complete stranger, has resulted in the pair getting married.

In a post on Imgur, Schuyler Benson describes how six years ago a bug on the mobile version of the social network logged him into the account of a woman he’d never met. He explains:

“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.

“Turns out, I was in the account of a nice lady named Celeste, who lived in Boulder, Colorado. She and I had never met, never lived in the same state, had no mutual friends in real life or online, shared no Facebook interests. For some reason, I was unable to logout of her account. And every time I logged in from my phone for the entire week, I found myself in Celeste’s account”.

The pair were left baffled by the technical hitch until Celeste sent a friend request that unexpectedly fixed the problem, though the story didn’t end there.

“After some understandable confusion (and a little panic on both parts), I was able to log out after she sent me a friend request. She’s admitted that she intended to delete me a few days later, but it turns out we had a lot in common” said Benson.

The two soon became close friends online and finally met in person in the summer of 2013. Just months later, Celeste relocated to Arkansas so that the two could be together.

The following year, the couple got engaged before finally moving to South Carolina and getting hitched in June 2015.

Benson finished off his post by saying:

“I found my partner, my best friend, my great love via a simple glitch in social media. There are awful things in this world, but sometimes there’s beauty, too. This is my beauty”.

Image credit: Imgur/Schuler Benson

H/T: DigitalSpy