I have an
OkCupid account. Combination of it having an interesting match algorithm, and the fact that I am at least vaguely after a relationship, and there's a (tiny) chance something could come from there.
Today I got a message from them telling me that someone has rated me highly (4 or 5 out of 5). I look around said persons profile. They don't particularly grab me as someone I want to get to know (not 'they're terrible', just not getting the 'Oooh, interesting...' response). Because they look vaguely familiar and I want to work out if I know them through LARP or somesuch, I google their user name. No links appear, but as I'm about to click the search closed, something catches my eye; the google title for their OkCupid ends '24 / F / Brooklyn, New York'.
*…isn't she supposed to be in London?* I think. So I check, and yes, her current profile reads '27 / F / London, United Kingdom'.
*Must be an old profile* my thoughts go. But curiousity wins out, and I click through to view the cached version of that page. Google tells me said page was cached on the 8th of November 2012, suggesting that this user has aged three years and moved three and a half thousand miles in the last two weeks.
I understanding caching can be weird, so there's still a possibility that it's from earlier, just that cache has been held onto or somesuch (though it seems unlikely, especially given the cached page mentions 2012 in various places). But now I'm intrigued enough to have a look through both versions of the profile, cross comparing them. (Compare for yourself;
cached and
current)
One is from Derry, the other Belfast. One mentions a fourteen year old daughter, the other doesn't. There are a few differences in the huge list of liked books/films/music. Beyond that, it's pretty much identical, and in some ways that's its own strangeness — in both New York and London she says she's working simultaneously as a hairdresser, sound person for film, and in a bar. Different hairdressers and bars (specifically named), but the same three jobs. Impossible? No. Unlikely? I'd say so.
So, cache weirdness, extreme self re-invention in the search for love, or something else? What do people think?