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Where many men have disappointed their girlfriends by offering casual, lackluster proposals, Digg's Matt Van Horn secured a definite "yes" from his girlfriend, Lauren, on Saturday by streaming his surprise proposal online so that their friends and family could watch. Fearing that Lauren would expect the proposal if he took her to their favorite spot overlooking San Francisco, Van Horn arranged for a friend to take Lauren there, where he hid behind a rock with another friend, filming everything to a Qik video stream.
Before the proposal, Van Horn rigged the Qik stream to sync to his Foursquare and Twitter accounts. So, when he did check into the park on Foursquare, the URL of the check-in was automatically posted to the Qik stream, which then posted the check-in to his Twitter account. Got that? Since Lauren's phone was already set up to receive Van Horn's Twitter alerts, she shortly saw that he was at the same park and turned around, shocked to see her boyfriend on his knees proposing to her.
We can't help but shed a few tears watching Van Horn's proposal, and luckily the social media mastery resulted in a moment captured in the touching video below. [From: Mashable]
[Image credit: Chris Hutchins]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsbryanalvAug 10th 2010 2:27PM
What priceless moments they and their families were given by him proposing this way. Romantic, fun, creative, and touching all in one. Thanks for sharing!
blazingphoenix83Aug 10th 2010 3:46PM
aww good job guy.
agranon2Aug 11th 2010 2:49AM
I knew this would be stupid.
ginnynailAug 10th 2010 9:40PM
Is it just me or does this girl look more shocked than anything and not so much thrilled and actually happy??? This guy is thoughtful and did a great job!
mendaAug 10th 2010 10:54PM
YAWN! This MIGHT have been cute, touching and all that good stuff, if we actaully HEARD what was being said. Maybe he could have used some flowers or something else to get teh big bang from her. But, instead it was a long, drawn out, windy, no "bang", bunch of non sense. She seems too "duh, huh, what". She coudn't even form sentences, even 5 mins after it all went down. People are talking to her and asking here stuff, and she just stands there. Kind of rude, no matter HOW surprised or "aww" struck. And, the camera guy couldn't hold a camera together to save his life. In fact, it sounded like when the proposal was going down, he was jacking one off over there. Truly, NOT a show stopper, nor even to make a "list" of "good proposal's. Boring.