How A Hitch On Facebook Led to the Marriage of Two Strangers

Six years ago, Schuler Benson found his true love through a hitch on social media. On that fateful day, Schuler had tried to access his Facebook account only to find it was logged in to a strange female’s Facebook account. Schuler was surprised because the woman, Celeste Benson, had no mutual friends, and he had never seen or even heard of her. She lived in Colorado, while Schuler’s home was in Arkansas.

According to the Mirror, Schuler, whose story has gone viral after being shared on imgur.com, said: “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.”

Schuler after overcoming his shock was able to log out, but things heated up when Celeste sent him a Facebook request.

Schuler said: “It turns out we had a lot in common. Like, a LOT in common. We became close friends online and finally met in person in June of 2013. In the fall of 2013, she relocated from Colorado to live with me in Arkansas.”

A year later the couple got engaged and moved to South Carolina where they got married on June 21, 2015.

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Revealing how he felt about the incident, Schuler said: “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.”