I really couldn’t care less. I use Techmeme to see the upcoming headlines in the world of Technology. Not to be fed to some dumb tabloid-ish ‘news’. This incident happened on the 21st of March, and it has taken me some time to write about it. It was quite disturbing that even online journalism has become prey to that damned thing called dumbing down. C’mon. What difference does it make if it was the first marriage proposal or the second or the 658th? Apparently there are discussions all across, and by that I mean respectable blogs we read - Wired and Mashable to name a few. Discussions over the authenticity of the marriage or it being just a publicity stunt, or even the authenticity of it being the very FIRST one.
First things first. SHUT UP. Let’s move ahead from the Twitter jungle and the low lives who feel it’s cool to propose the love of your ‘Virtual’ Life on a Social Networking Tool. Is that how Life has shaped up. Are we moving ahead in a direction where proposing via SMS would become a norm. For the non-starters, here’s what actually got delivered. For the 140 character limit, the message had to crisp, sweet and precisely accurate without omitting any necessary emotions.

The message read: “To @emilychang - After fifteen years of blissful happiness I would like to ask for your hand in marriage?”

The reply, within a minute: “@maxkiesler - yes, i do.” Of course you do.!!!!

My question is to Techmeme. Is this what is meant by Tech-headlines? Lemme try create something more explosive and probably my blog could get bloated up in terms of incoming links from Techmeme. Here’s one for starters: Techmeme bashed by Techkeyla. Please oh Please try and avoid these stupid news and let them remain buried in the world of underground blogosphere.

P.S. Do read the comments on the post on Wired.com. It’s a whole set of geeks talking of how they proposed by writing a UNIX main page so on and so forth. I predict that by the time the couple decides to split, Twitter will be acquired by either Microsoft or Google. But given, Google already own Jaiku, chances are that Microsoft might head for Twitter, or may be not.