Hot Clicks: Mistaken identity and Facebook glitch leads to love

Every time he tried to log in, he found himself on the account of Celeste Benson, a woman he had never met and had no mutual friends with.

Benson proposed in 2014 by logging back into Celeste’s account, posting a photo of an engagement ring on her Facebook page and asking her to marry him.

Schuyler Benson couldn’t log in to his own Facebook account. “I’m not Celeste and I have no idea how I got on here”.

Weirdly, Schuler wasn’t even given a chance to enter any login information and it was only after he’d posted a few things that he realised he was actually logged in to a complete stranger’s account. I was already logged in. Benson was then able to log out of Zendler’s account.

Zendler was a Boulder, Colorado resident at the time, and was only made aware of the situation when her friends alerted her to it.

A glitch in social media has succeeded in bringing two people together in holy matrimony.

“Not only did this correct the glitch, it also bagged her a future hubby because the pair soon began chatting online and realized they had a lot in common”. Just a couple of months later, she relocated from Colorado to live with him in Arkansas.

The issue lasted for several days with Benson still somehow logged in as Zendler, unable to figure out how to get the account on his phone changed. Benson posted the story on Imgur.

“I never did (delete him) because I enjoyed his status updates”, she said.

When he says “we had a lot in common”, he’s not kidding. We became close friends online, and finally met in person in June of 2013. It clearly went well – later that same year, Celeste moved to Arkansas to be with Schuler.

The couple married this past June and moved to South Carolina.

Fast forward to June 21, 2015 – that’s when Benson and Zendler were married.

Benson saidthe simple glitch in social media helped him find his partner, his best friend and his great love. “This is my beauty”, Benson wrote.