What Craigslist’s missed connections are still good for
<p>The printout isn’t a Missed Connection, but I find it emblematic of many of the posts present on the forum: part love letter, part scream into the void, and deeply personal to the Bay Area. Tiny and nostalgic and electric with longing, each one feels like the beginning of a rom-com that will be inevitably abandoned midway through production.</p>
<p>“Our motivation is simply that this is something that happened to all of us,”<em> </em>said Craigslist founder Craig Newmark of the idea behind Missed Connections to the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/nyregion/romance-beckons-in-case-you-missed-it.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">in 2005</a>. He cited the name as a transportation metaphor: when a passenger misses part of the leg of a journey due to delays or errors or other issues.</p>
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