New York: Ever locked eyes with a stranger on a train or in a store, become quickly intrigued, and later regretted not even saying "hello."
In a fast-paced world growing ever faster online, the Web is replacing the newspaper personal ad as a place where people can act belatedly on that moment of magical chemistry with some fleeting encounters even leading to marriage.
At social networking and advertising site Craigslist.org, a subsection called Missed Connections, is rapidly becoming a destination for second chance encounters, and its ads tell tales of infatuation, hope, frustration and love.
Craigslist's Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster said that he had heard of several marriages forged through Missed Connections that was set up in 2000.
Use of the site has surged in the past three years to 75,000 new postings a month from 18,000, with San Francisco the biggest market then New York.
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