Missed Connections
The Portland Craigslist Missed Connections forum — and the Instagram page that reposts the best local MC listings — is the hottest spot online. Everyone is interested in the MC forum partly because they enjoy seeing the posts other people make about strangers but mostly because they want to find themselves described in a listing. By the way, people who express the sentiment that they “don’t want to be perceived” are always lying. Everyone wants to be perceived as so hot and mysterious you prompt someone to sit down and type up how much they want you and then post it to a Missed Connections page.
The problem is that the people who are described in Missed Connections posts would never post on Missed Connections or look for themselves amongst the listings. Posting a Missed Connections listing isn’t mysterious. (It could be hot, depending on if you’re hot.) It’s not smooth, either — if you had game, you wouldn’t have missed the connection. The poster and the subject will never be compatible.
If you’re looking for a MC romance, you’ll be more likely to find it in the comments section of the Instagram account @missedconnections_pdx. Those people are the fellow spies and sleuths, romantics and creeps, desperate narcissists yearning to be known. MC Poster 4 MC Poster: those are the only relationships that might emerge from this site.
Some people in the comments are mad that a lot of the listings aren’t really “missed connections.” (Those pedantic assholes should bond with each other.) A lot of the posts are apologies that people are too cowardly to say directly. Some are obvious bait for engagement. Some are yelling at cyclists.
I bet the MCPDX Instagram page has prompted many more Missed Connections posts. An optimistic view of this would be that people just didn’t know about the forum until they found the Instagram account. But I think people don’t like to post into the archaic void of Craigslist without the knowledge they might start some discourse with what they have to say. I think this effect will ruin the sanctity of the Missed Connections forum, but I like the Instagram page anyway and I don’t think that’s what the admin of the account wants. It’s not their fault.
It’s not anyone’s fault. We’re all just over Tinder.