Found Connections
Ye Eun Alison Lee
Craigslist is more than just a classified advertising website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, and things for sale. It also has community sections, where people who are in the community are looking for their missed connections.
All the lists on missed connections are written anonymously. Even if someone recognized their missed connection, the only way to contact them is to send an email to an anonymous email address that Craigslist generates.
Looking for someone who was attracted to someone else at first sight without meeting is such a private action. Reading these missed connections love letters is emotional, sensual, and rambling. This project explores stories of missed connections and their relationship to the reader. The inserted annotations and photos try to investigate personal information as much as possible. It explores how easy it is to find personal information from the Internet. The book ties all these pieces of random information excerpted from Craigslist together. Even though the book contains more details, images, and even unnecessary fun facts, it became even more private. Outside the web, these stories never get lost. They are stuck to pages, waiting for someone to read them.