OKCupid announced yesterday had been playing with us - much more our products only from Facebook had been. Among other things, the online dating site deliberately said some users were large parties when in fact were horrible games and vice versa. All the scene recalled for me, of all things, a romcom in 1998 about the lost connections.
There was no OKCupid in 1998 of the course (there were, however, Match.com), but sliding doors is a romcom with an ancient connection lost style. A GLOB pre, pre-Coldplay Gwyneth Paltrow is fired from his job, and she runs to catch the train. Scenario 1: she makes just in time, meets a strange dark-haired in the train and arrives to catch her cheating boyfriend in flagrante delicto. Scenario 2: lost train and never finds out. The two lines of history play in parallel, conveniently bounded by Gwyneth different hairstyles.Without the benefit of seeing in parallel universes, truly we cannot say if OKCupid experiments created the lost connections. Perhaps the experiment has created some unlikely but successful pairings. I can easily see a 21 version of sliding doors based on an experiment of algorithm says something about the way we live now. [See sliding doors on Amazon or iTunes]
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