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Location-Based Foursquare Helps Man Pop the Question

by Leila Brillson on December 21, 2009 at 04:21 PM

Nothing warms our hearts more than a geeky marriage proposal here at Switched, but we get a bit bored of Twitter, Facebook, and even tweaked video game declarations of love. So kudos to Raleigh-Durham resident Alex Marsh, who took his girlfriend, Susan Wilkison, out to dinner at Raleigh Times Bar to propose, via Foursquare. Foursquare is a nifty little app that allows users to "check in" at locations country-wide and become "mayor" of certain places, collecting "badges" on the way. Part social networking and part scavenger hunt, Foursquare has become a lot of fun in the last year.

So when Alex announced via the service that he was at dinner, he typed in: "Popping the question!" As Susan (and all of their friends) was alerted of his activities, she immediately responded yes (using Foursquare, of course). Newfangled proposals may seem strange to the non-texting, GPS-disabled, social-networking-novice population, but remember: This is how many of us communicate these days. What a hand-written letter was to the generations prior, a public display of status updates is today. Congratulations, Susan and Alex. [From: Mashable]

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