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Hot or Not couple marry thanks to Facebook
When website Hot or Not first surfaced in 2000, its founders attracted criticism for using the web to play to users’ most basic instincts.
Now, however, the site that asked users to upload pictures and "rate" those of others is celebrating its first Facebook wedding.
Brazilian air hostess Gisele Cunha, 31, uploaded her picture in January 2008, and has recently married Gavin Jenkins, 30, from South Wales.
After noticing her picture on the Hot or Not Facebook application, Mr Jenkins planned to meet Miss Cunha on a work trip to Brazil.
The pair used email and instant messaging to keep in touch, however, until Cunha began working in Britain in April 2008. Jenkins proposed in October the following year.
Hot or Not now has originally conceived to settle a disagreement between its two founders. Volunteer moderators vet all the images that are uploaded to prevent offensive content finding its way on to the site.
Hot or Not was sold for a rumoured $20 million in 2008 when it was bought by Avid Life Media, with net profits of $2 million.
The site is similar to how Mark Zuckerberg originally imagined Facebook.
FaceMash allowed Harvard students to rate their contemporaries. Jenkins told the Sunday Mirror, “I have a lot to thank Mark Zuckerberg for. I definitely owe him a pint”.
Article from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...t-or-Not-couple-marry-thanks-to-Facebook.html
When website Hot or Not first surfaced in 2000, its founders attracted criticism for using the web to play to users’ most basic instincts.
Now, however, the site that asked users to upload pictures and "rate" those of others is celebrating its first Facebook wedding.
Brazilian air hostess Gisele Cunha, 31, uploaded her picture in January 2008, and has recently married Gavin Jenkins, 30, from South Wales.
After noticing her picture on the Hot or Not Facebook application, Mr Jenkins planned to meet Miss Cunha on a work trip to Brazil.
The pair used email and instant messaging to keep in touch, however, until Cunha began working in Britain in April 2008. Jenkins proposed in October the following year.
Hot or Not now has originally conceived to settle a disagreement between its two founders. Volunteer moderators vet all the images that are uploaded to prevent offensive content finding its way on to the site.
Hot or Not was sold for a rumoured $20 million in 2008 when it was bought by Avid Life Media, with net profits of $2 million.
The site is similar to how Mark Zuckerberg originally imagined Facebook.
FaceMash allowed Harvard students to rate their contemporaries. Jenkins told the Sunday Mirror, “I have a lot to thank Mark Zuckerberg for. I definitely owe him a pint”.
Article from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...t-or-Not-couple-marry-thanks-to-Facebook.html