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Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by jacques_chester » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 2:53 AM UTC

charlieok wrote: post #60

ellyagg wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One time my sister-in-law met a guy at a bar and it was one of those movie conversations where they liked the same obscure writers and comedy and whatever. They parted coolly and casually, but the next day they reconnected through Craigslist. So it's happened at least once.

haha, I was just thinking that. Every romance movie where people in a huge city lose track of each other has to ignore the existence of that city's craigslist “missed connections” page. That is, if both parties felt that way about it.

The internet has demolished the basic template for a whole sub-genre of romance movies.

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by drucken » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 2:54 AM UTC

clbrook wrote: post #85

ianstallings wrote: post #71

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Spill the beans! Tell us more. This is pretty intriguing.

This finally motivated me to write up about it :) http://drippurple.com/

Awesome! But did you ever found out why and what came of his "bouquet of flowers" in the original meeting? :)

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by drucken » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 2:57 AM UTC

suyash wrote: post #47

This is Reddit Material, sad to see it Making Page 1 on HN :(

Borderline. It is derived from data, the data is suggestive, and given the number of comments from HN regulars, interesting enough.

It could even lead to some "hacking"!

Anyway, its a Friday in most of the world by now... :)

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by zera_holladay » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:00 AM UTC

robotmlg wrote: post #2

Indiana's most cited location for a missed connection is "at home." How does that make sense?

The "at home" location is the location of the person when they submitted the missed connection form. For example, my location is "at home" as I type this.

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by thebillywayne » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:00 AM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #91

charlieok wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha, I was just thinking that. Every romance movie where people in a huge city lose track of each other has to ignore the existence of that city's craigslist “missed connections” page. That is, if both parties felt that way about it.

The internet has demolished the basic template for a whole sub-genre of romance movies.

if only romeo and juliet had cell phones.

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by dbpatterson » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:01 AM UTC

Seems like a pretty small sample size - only 100 per state? I'm not familiar with how Craigslist works for this, but is there any reason why you couldn't select thousands and get better results (look for common words, rank them, etc). Seems like the variation would be pretty high...

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by homosaur » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:05 AM UTC

javert wrote: post #68

eplanit wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or, the result of Feminism, which teaches women to take the active role.

Feminism doesn't teach women to take the active role. It teaches them to hate men. To be clear, I think women should be treated equally under the law. I'm a big supporter of natural rights. Feminists are not big supporters of natural rights. They are generally leftists, and the truly intellectually dedicated members are generally far leftists.

Take it to Reddit, dude.

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by clbrook » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:12 AM UTC

drucken wrote: post #92

clbrook wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This finally motivated me to write up about it :) http://drippurple.com/

Awesome! But did you ever found out why and what came of his "bouquet of flowers" in the original meeting? :)

I did.

The date he had been setup on showed up about 5 minutes after my coworkers and I moved on to the next restaurant (edit: bar, this is Wisconsin after-all), R and his date went inside to eat, which is why S could not find him.

R told me on our first date that you'll never know how difficult it is to go on a date with someone while you're thinking about someone else :)

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by robotmlg » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:31 AM UTC

zera_holladay wrote: post #94

robotmlg wrote: post #2

Indiana's most cited location for a missed connection is "at home." How does that make sense?

The "at home" location is the location of the person when they submitted the missed connection form. For example, my location is "at home" as I type this.

No, it says it's the "location where the missed connection occurred."

Re: The Saddest Map In America

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Post by happimess » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 3:35 AM UTC

Macsenour wrote: post #61

newishuser wrote: post #9

Why is this sad? Because Walmart is the most cited location? Seems great to me. People are reaching out. Would be more depressing if they just decided to not do anything about it. Plus this only has relevance to craigslist users. Seems like a fun conversation piece but certainly isn't the anything-est anything in America.

I would have said "confusing" over "sad". RI with "parking lots" is odd, but topped by IN "at home". How do you have a missed connection at home? Your house that big?

I just spent a few minutes looking through the Indianapolis missed connections. It seems that a lot of them aren't "missed connections" in the sense that I would expect, but rather, "I'm tired of walking into an empty home," "When I was with you I felt at home," or "Please come home."

This is my first foray into the craigslist missed connections section, so maybe this is standard, but it seemed to me that they were more abstract and musing than "I saw you at Walmart and loved your neck tattoo."