{"id":248,"date":"2015-05-15T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/?post_type=our-story&p=248"},"modified":"2023-05-31T01:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T01:33:46","slug":"ian-posts-about-pool-in-verve-facebook-group","status":"publish","type":"our-story","link":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/en\/our-story\/ian-posts-about-pool-in-verve-facebook-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Posts About Pool in Verve Facebook Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Verve condo building has a community Facebook group for the residents, like most condo buildings do.<\/p>\n

Residents post about various things and discuss in the group. I had set push notifications for the group on my phone so I would be alerted to the latest news from the building from my neighbours. One day, I notice a notification for a post about the pool. I had meant to use the pool more that summer, so I opened up the post to read more. It was a post written by Ian.<\/p>\n

There were issues with residents bringing too many guests. He suggested the building hire a lifeguard instead of paying an expensive security guard to manage access to the pool. Get more bang for our buck.<\/p>\n

But his post wasn\u2019t important.<\/p>\n

What was important is that I noticed Ian\u2019s profile photo. Wasn\u2019t that the guy who also works at Sportsnet?<\/p>\n

I reached out, slipping in Ian\u2019s DMs. (A direct message using Facebook\u2019s built-in chat).<\/p>\n

\u201cHey! Didn\u2019t know you also lived at Verve! I\u2019ve never seen you around.\u201d<\/p>\n

After many missed meetings and connections that I didn\u2019t even know about at the time, we were finally talking.<\/p>\n

The text conversation went into the wee hours of the morning. Chatting mostly about work. An easy shared topic and icebreaker. But also about living in the Village, and upcoming Pride plans.<\/p>\n

Ian was actually at his parents place that night. \u00a0So the next morning when he woke up so late, he had to come up with some excuse why he didn\u2019t get to sleep earlier. \u00a0\u201cUh\u2026 I just couldn\u2019t sleep?\u201d<\/p>\n

Our conversation had finally started\u2026 and it wouldn\u2019t stop\u2026 ever.<\/p>\n

Daily text conversations happened every day\u2026 until this very day.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n\t \n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Verve condo building has a community Facebook group for the residents, like most condo buildings do. Residents post about various things and discuss in the group. I had set push notifications for the group on my phone so I would be alerted to the latest news from the building from my neighbours. One day, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":342,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","ptb_metabox":{"ptb_our_story_written_by":"St\u00e9phane","ptb_our_story_cover_image":["343","https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/3_Facebook_C.jpg"]},"ptb_taxonomy":[],"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/3_Facebook_BW.jpg","title":"3_Facebook_BW","caption":""},"builder_content":"

The Verve condo building has a community Facebook group for the residents, like most condo buildings do.<\/p>

Residents post about various things and discuss in the group. I had set push notifications for the group on my phone so I would be alerted to the latest news from the building from my neighbours. One day, I notice a notification for a post about the pool. I had meant to use the pool more that summer, so I opened up the post to read more. It was a post written by Ian.<\/p>

There were issues with residents bringing too many guests. He suggested the building hire a lifeguard instead of paying an expensive security guard to manage access to the pool. Get more bang for our buck.<\/p>

But his post wasn\u2019t important.<\/p>

What was important is that I noticed Ian\u2019s profile photo. Wasn\u2019t that the guy who also works at Sportsnet?<\/p>

I reached out, slipping in Ian\u2019s DMs. (A direct message using Facebook\u2019s built-in chat).<\/p>

\u201cHey! Didn\u2019t know you also lived at Verve! I\u2019ve never seen you around.\u201d<\/p>

After many missed meetings and connections that I didn\u2019t even know about at the time, we were finally talking.<\/p>

The text conversation went into the wee hours of the morning. Chatting mostly about work. An easy shared topic and icebreaker. But also about living in the Village, and upcoming Pride plans.<\/p>

Ian was actually at his parents place that night. \u00a0So the next morning when he woke up so late, he had to come up with some excuse why he didn\u2019t get to sleep earlier. \u00a0\u201cUh\u2026 I just couldn\u2019t sleep?\u201d<\/p>

Our conversation had finally started\u2026 and it wouldn\u2019t stop\u2026 ever.<\/p>

Daily text conversations happened every day\u2026 until this very day.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-story\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our-story"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}