Geeks everywhere are going giddy! A Twitter-based marriage proposal has made the rounds.
Old-school personalities would probably frown on this. After all, shouldn’t there be a bended knee, with a risk of total humiliation for the sake of getting someone to live with and love you for the rest of your life? Here’s something else I’ve considered: if I proposed to a girl over Twitter, and a few years down the road, Twitter closes down, wouldn’t I lose a record of what’s obviously an important event in my life?
Yes, the conservative side of my personality rails against so-called novel approaches to romance and life in general. After all, I’d really want to do something like a marriage proposal in person. But the writer who maintains this blog is open to another possibility: the tools we use to capture significant moments in our life are just changing. So are the people who use them.
In other words, we will probably see more Twitter proposals in the future because micro-blogging represents a new way of doing things, of socialization. To the point that some think about them weighty enough for the stuff that really matters. An obvious example is the woman who accepted the proposal
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