# Facebook Glitch Leads To Unexpected Marriage

- Link: https://stayathomemum.com.au/news-opinion/general/facebook-glitch-leads-to-unexpected-marriage/
- Published: 2015-10-06T16:59:26+11:00
- Author: Clare Whitfield

## _People meet their partners online all the time these days, and Facebook is just another place that people might meet their one true love. _

But there aren’t too many people who met on Facebook like Schuler Benson and Celeste
Zendler.

Their love story started in October of 2009 when Schuler Benson opened Facebook 
on his flip phone and found that he had been automatically logged into a stranger’s
account.

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telegraph.co.uk

 

The Facebook account in question belonged to Celeste Zendler. Interestingly, they
had absolutely nothing that would have caused the glitch. Celeste had no mutual 
friends with Schuler, they’d never heard of each other, and they lived 1,600 kilometres
apart.

For a week Schuler was stuck in Celeste’s account, unable to log out because the
glitch had resulted in an inability to see the log out button. They communicated
together online as ‘This is Celeste’ and ‘This is NOT Celeste’. Finally, the real
Celeste decided to try and send Schuler a friend request to see if that would cancel
out the glitch. It did.

In any other situation it would seem like that would be the end of it. But although
Celesta originally planned to delete Schuler as a friend as soon as the glitch was
definitely fixed, she never did. Instead she found that she enjoyed his status updates,
and they began an online friendship where they slowly got to know each other. As
the years went on, against all the odds, that friendship blossomed into something
more.

Of course, it wasn’t a fast moving relationship. Celeste says it “literally took
years to go from Facebook friends to a romantic relationship”. They started dating
in 2013, and Celeste moved to Arkansas to be closer to Schuler.

Then on June 11th 2014 Schuler appeared on Celeste’s Facebook account again, this
time on purpose.

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telegraph.co.uk

He wanted to propose where they had first met, which was Facebook. So, he posted
status update on her account, taking a moment to point out just how crazy the odds
of their relationship were.

 

> _“In the fall of 2009, Facebook already had over 175 million users. Rounding down,
> the odds of us connecting were less than 1 in 175,000,000. Statistically speaking,
> you’re about 300 times more likely to be struck by lightning. You’re more likely
> to be bitten by a shark”� on land. And you’re about as likely to win the Powerball
> Jackpot”� with the exact same numbers as someone else.”_

Celeste agreed to marry Schuler, and they finally tied the knot in June of 2015.

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Telegraph Co Uk

 

Even though they’re married, there’s still moments where they can barely believe
what happened. As Schuler said:

> _“I found my partner, my best friend and my great love due to a simple glitch 
> on social media.”_

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 Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

 Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical
home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney,
she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school 
age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience
in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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