August 13, 2010

New Trend: Use social media for your marriage proposal?

That’s what Digg’s Matt Van Horn did this past Saturday to propose to his girlfriend. Van Horn used a combination of Twitter, Foursquare, and Qik to pull together a very heartwarming marriage proposal.

First he had a friend of his future fiance bring her up to the top of a hill in San Fransisco, where he was hiding behind a rock to surprise her. Also hiding with Van Horn was a friend who was video recording the whole thing through the mobile streaming service Qik. Meanwhile, Twitter and Foursquare were being used to alert everyone, including his future bride, that a proposal was just about to take place. Qik was connected to the stream so that family and friends could experience the proposal live!

Van Horn has posted these couple tweets to his blog (tweets are pre-proposal):

“So I had @hutchins hiding with me behind the rock with his iPhone live streaming the proposal and he also had a camera taking photos. I has sent out the link 30 minutes earlier to both our families, so they were watching live.”
“Once I got the signal that she was there, I checked into Bernal Heights Park via Foursquare which shouted the URL to the livestream on Qik, which automatically synced to my twitter and Facebook accounts. I knew Lauren received my tweets via text message on her phone, so I asked her to turn around as I proposed!”

Now, because of Matt Van Horn’s tech-savvy means for proposing, the video will live on the web forever! Who knows, soon maybe all guys will be using a wide array of social media for their marriage proposals.

For more information, please visit http://mashable.com/2010/08/09/qik-proposal/
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