Kyoto resident and Kyoto Journal [1] associate editor Lucinda Cowing [2] experienced a moment of social media serendipity recently.
Cowing wrote on her Facebook page (which is private, but quoted with permission below):
Woaaa, talk about “it's a small world” moment. I had a suspicion the girl opposite me was taking a sneaky phone picture on the Eiden [3] the other weekend. Sure enough, that photo appeared on Instagram, and now, a friend of mine living in Beijing sees it and says he's sitting opposite the Taiwanese girl who took it.
Next stop [4]
Cowing's friend in Beijing then posted a photo on Facebook of Instagram user tammytu [5], who snapped the photo during a recent sightseeing trip to Kyoto.
The two women are now friends, according to Cowing.