With the program on your cell phone, you can “check-in” to venues around town and receive a notification if your friends are around. That got Alex Marsh thinking — what if when he checked in at dinner with his girlfriend, he added “popping the question!” to his message, knowing full well that she would receive the update? She said yes — and checked in on Foursquare, as reported by Mashable.
The social media blog also scored an email from the newly engaged Susan Wilkison to Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley about her big night:
Subject: My fiance proposed to me last night using Foursquare!Hello! I’m so glad Foursquare has come to Raleigh-Durham!I wanted to share that my fiance proposed to me
last night usingFoursquare. We we’re at dinner, both of us had our phones out, him to checkin, me looking up something else and ping! there was his check in shouting“popping the question!” After he put the ring on my finger, I also checkedin to the location and shouted “and I said YES!”
Maybe it’s sort of cute, or maybe we’re all just robots.
Man Proposes Marriage via Foursquare Check-In [Mashable]