Sunday, 11 January 2009
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Marriage Proposal on Twitter
This is a guest blog submitted by The_Prestigiator.I thought I had seen it all until I witnessed a marriage proposal. No, not in a restaurant. Not atop the Eiffel Tower. No, not in the front of some pretty fountain. I witnessed a marriage proposal on Twitter .
Basically the conversation consisted of the following blurbs:
he sent her: i just can't wait one minute longer to ask you this. Will you marry me? i want to share the rest of our lives together.
she sent him: yes! Yes! Yes!
he sent to everyone: @film_girl said yes! I am officially the happiest guy evar. I can't wait to celebrate with her when MacWorld is over.
(he even included an image of film_girl's ring!)
I was shocked upon seeing this. I follow loads of people on Twitter just because it's interesting to see how people utilize the limited space, but this just shocked me because it was so unexpected. I shouldn't be that shocked though. After all, we are breathing, eating, cruising through a rather digital age.
What's the craziest or most romantic proposal you have ever heard of or witnessed? Would you ever propose online or accept an online proposal?
And does anyone know of any Xanga marriage proposals? (I'm definitely curious about this!)
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Comments (53)
Wow..thats a new one
I'm sort of sad about this.
Any guy who couldn't ask me face to face would get a slap across his and be made to ask me for real.
Okay okay, I'm kidding...sort of...
But honestly - Twitter? That's just so...impersonal.
No marriage propsals on Xanga what I am aware of.
I haven't witnessed very many marriage proposals (i.e. none at all), but I have seen a few insane ways for people to ask each other to prom... For example, some guy got up on top of the roof of our school and hung a banner down the side of it that said "Will you go to prom with me, ?"
my friend sent that Twitter to me and I thought it was cute. I wouldn't want to be proposed to that way, but some people are very into things like that, so it's not our place to judge. For them, Twitter might be something that's very significant in their relationship, so it was appropriate.
Me personally, if I was proposed online, I would tell him when he mans up and has the guts to do it in person, then I will say yes.
I haven't witnessed such a thing nor heard of anyone getting proposed on Xanga.
Wow... that's so not romantic at all. Ugh! I've seen people getting "married" on online games, such as RuneScape. But dang on a social network - that's dumb too.
@awokenfatality@xanga - If someone were to propose to me online - they're not worth it. They're too much of a coward to be worth my time.
This has got to be the second or third Twitter proposal I've heard of. I witnessed one first hand myself back in November -- the couple was so cute.
To those people who say that it's impersonal, the couple I saw met and got to know each other on Twitter before anything else, so it was important to them.
Personally, I might accept an online proposal, but there should be a good reason for it. Long distances, maybe, or some significance in the way he did it.
I think it's relatively safe to follow the breakup rule--grow a pair, and say 'I hate you' face to face rather than hide behind a laptop or text.
But it's undeniably cute, and if it was a long distance relationship it might be acceptable. My parents were in a long distance relationship, though they were in the same house when dad proposed--the threw a letter asking my moms hand, then he locked himself in the bathroom. lol.
Wow... on twitter?? Not expected and not what I would want!
@fakegeisha@xanga - haha your parents' story is too funny! I knew a couple where the man asked her father for her hand in marriage through a letter (because he was so shy and so nervous!) and then her father faxed it to everyone he knew!
But no I have never heard of a proposal through twitter or anything else online, really. I realize that we live in the Internet age, but that's kind of ridiculous to me to propose to someone online like that. If you are long distance, call the girl! haha if I were her, I think I wouldn't even have guessed that he was for real! haha but thanks for the interesting post--this made me laugh
@SomethingAboutKaren@xanga - Oh wow, that's terrible! How funny though. I would have been mortified if I was the young man. Maybe the father was impressed however, and wanted to show everyone?
Or not. Could have just been a wicked sense of humor on his part...
Xo
oh, boy. wait till they meet face to face.
that seemed so fake =/
my ex asked me out through a text and it basically went like that.
i dont know why youd want to do it like that.
the guy cant see the girl's face light up.
the girl cant see the guy get down on one knee.
hell, she cant even get the ring put on her finger.
he could've waited.
I have a friend whose husband proposed to her on MSN messenger. She was shocked that he did, but said yes. Later, he surprised her with a lovely, romantic, "re-proposal." It's a sweet story.
I don't know if I'd like such an impersonal proposal, but if I loved the man, I wouldn't say no because of it.
@fakegeisha@xanga - haha no i don't think it was wicked humor since he did give his approval of the marriage proposal. I think it was that he was so proud and impressed that he faxed the proposal to everyone he knew. haha he just made it too easy for the father to spread the word
Uggghhhh... If he can't man up and do it in person, tough. That's what I told my current boyfriend (a year and three months now), because at first he tried to ask me out on the internet, and I told him I wouldn't give him an answer of any kind until he asked me in person; in short, he did, and we're still together.
Marriage wise, I've only seen one, and it was during the Wednesday Chapel service at school. It was when many of the gentlemen faculty dressed up in tuxes to hand out prom invitations (Tiffany's theme), and after they brought it all forward, he called his girlfriend at the time to the front and did it in front of my entire school. It was the sweetest thing. XD
Now, If I could just get my bf to propose I'd be set. There doesnt need to be a ring or any corney crap, I just want to know that he does want to be with me.
online proposal...ick. then in the joy of the moment after you won't be together to fully share it...a moment that can never be re-gained...
i've been proposed to by randoms: in the streets of nyc...in the hong kong airport...crazy! to be fair, i think one of them probably wanted US citizenship?? haha
If anyone proposed to me online I'd laugh and think they were joking.
While face-to-face proposals are romantic and sweet, although some are cheesy, I agree that if the internet has major significance in the couples relationship it might be a personal way to propose.
And who says they've never seen eachother? Maybe he gave her the right a few minutes later, you never know.
Absolutely not acceptable! Well, to me. xD If a guy going's to propose to me, he better be kneeling down on one knee and holding his hand by his heart.
*over his heart
Oops. ._.
what's twitter?