Valentine’s Day: A Flickr love story

February 14, 2008
This story I read (on WIRED How-to WIKI) about f inding love on Flickr was so cute. People find love in t he weirdest way over the Internet.
I love this!
picnik_sample2.jpg
While traveling in Japan in 2004, a Scottish Flickr user with the handle “matt” snapped a photo of a girl with a camera. He uploaded it to Flickr with the

title, “Mystery Girl in Harajuku.”

A few weeks later, a friend of the mystery girl clicked on a link to photos tagged with “Harajuku” and stumbled upon the photo and also a picture of Matt. Though Mystery Girl’s back is turned in the picture, the friend
recognized her shoulder tattoo.  He sent her the link to that photo and to Matt’s pic.
The mystery girl was in fact CherryVega, another Flickr user living in England. Cherry posted a comment underneath Matt’s fateful photo with a link to the picture she was taking at the time. Three months later, Matt was on his way to London to meet Cherry in person. They fell in love, and the rest is Flickr history. — Keith Axline