It's undeniable that social network sites like Facebook are extremely important to some, down to the last detail like relationship status. Recently, a groom took out his cell phone in the middle of the ceremony to not only
tweet that he and his fiancee had become man and wife, he also took pause to change his Facebook status to "married." (There's even
video on YouTube.)
Mashable even has an account of a
Twitter proposal, and Justin at Tumblr proposed to his girlfriend by
posting a video at the top of the microblogging site. (She said yes.)
If someone proposed to you in this manner, or your fiancee halted the wedding ceremony to announce your new status, how would you react? What do you think of these guys? Is it different to ask someone on a date via Facebook or Twitter as opposed to proposing? Is it romantic to put it out there in front of the whole world, or an invasion of privacy?
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Pathetic!
He should have waited till after the wedding...wow. somone needs an intervention.
i think thats so retarded
If my SO didn't know me enough to know that I wouldn't be impressed with an online proposal, we shouldn't be getting married. It'd be a definite NO. And if he stopped to update his FB status mid-ceremony, I'd be looking to get an annulment. I'm not down with that shit, wedding proposals and weddings are serious, special, precious, and dear to people's hearts and should be treated that way.
If you actually watch the video...it was said that they did it as a joke...I guess kind of like the people who dance all the way up to the alter...memories.
It isn't an invasion of privacy...I mean, for the most part, your friends are the ones reading the updates.
But I'd definitely be pissed if my hubby halted our vows to tweet about it, that's a little much. Also, to be proposed to or even asked out on fb or wherever is pretty lame. What's happening to personal face to face communication? Lol...
I think that'd be really embarrassing to explain 20 years from now when none of those things exist anymore.
At all costs, I would try to avoid infusing any type of pop culture into significant life events. I'm getting married? No dancing down the aisle to the first Top 40 song I heard after getting engaged.
I'm sure, somewhere out there, there is a man celebrating a wedding anniversary who is catching all kinds of shit for having a mullet and or reciting vows in Klingon.
If my guy took 5 seconds the change his relationship status to married on fbook, during our wedding he better take the next 5 seconds to change it to divorced. lol
but I meann, the girl shouldnt have been to surprised b/c if he's that obsessed w. twitter/facebook she should have been aware before the weddingg. idk
I would be mad at my husband. It would be funny, but that's all everyone would remember from our wedding... Not how beautiful we looked, our centerpieces, or the vows we said.
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - hahaha ok, but aren't the memories better if you did something fun, that meant a lot to both of you? Klingon may be a bit much....
i don't think i'd be happy if my groom pulled out his iPhone at the altar because i want him to be there in the moment, with me!!! but haha if he did it in the limo on the way to the reception or something, i'd think it was cute
and with online proposals and stuff...well i'm an actress and a big fan of attention, so the bigger the better!! haha i am a big fan of megatron proposals and whatnot, and i think big, declarative public proposals are awesome. so it depends on what it means to the two of you, but i wouldn't be against it
maybe he didnt REALLY do it at that moment? maybe .. he changed it later but just made it sound that way?
i just really hope for humanity that my guess is true. we can't be that far gone yet....
it was hilarious!! and she wasnt angry, she did it too!!
If they both did it in good fun, then I dont see how it could harm anyone. Personally, I wouldnt even ask someone out on a date via FB or Twitter...it kinda takes away from the whole personable interaction between the two people.
I'm sure that it was pre planned and a funny thing, and if they're ok with that, then it's totally fine. But , if my fiancee/husband did that just out of the blue, the wedding would end with a good slap instead of a kiss.
I think.. as long as you love the person, it doesn't matter.
I like twitter so that would be fine with me, but my boyfriend hates it with a passion, so that wouldn't work out. :P
Hahaha, that's cute! If you watch the video you can tell the Facebooking is just for fun. His wife did it too. Anyway, that guy who made the video, wow, that was awesome. I'd be honored if a guy put that much time into his proposal! He'd get a definite yes if it were me. The twitter proposal on the other hand, eh, not so much. It's too impersonal.
I don't know. Proposing does seem like something serious, but in this day and age with advancing technology, how are we not going to evolve new and creative ways to interact? I think as long as it doesn't impair our ability to gauge how serious something is, it should be OK. These examples don't diminish the serious or important nature of the proposals. I'm assuming the people involved just wanted to make something memorable and lasting.
For the record, I thought the couple halting the ceremony to update their statuses was cute. Facebook is serious business, people.
@socialite_baby@xanga - True Story.
@The_Pyrate_Wenches_Ramblings@xanga - No, they actually did it during their actual wedding "just to be funny".
@EuropeBrazil@lovelyish - that's what I said...I commented again after I watched the video and said that in a second comment...because the blog makes it seem like he did it because he honestly felt the need to do so. lol
g@The_Pyrate_Wenches_Ramblings@xanga - gotcha
I remember I was peeing when my boyfriend said over the phone: I want us to get married. :) Hehehe
i don't think i'd ever propose online. something like that should be more personal. emphasis on "person."
If my husband did that at our wedding, I probably would have laughed. That's kinda funny.
That's actually really funny and hey I've got a sense of humor so I think something like that isn't too far out of reach for me lol.