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Twitter Wedding Celebrates 'Merging Livestreams' With Social Media Ceremony

First Posted: 08/17/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:50 PM ET

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readwriteweb.com:

Paul and Sara are getting married. On Twitter. Sort of. They're technical sorts with a long-standing relationship with social media, so when they decided to legitimize their personal relationship, they figured they wouldn't divorce their daily life from their personal lives while they did it.

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Layman23
Do we want to live in the past?
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02:04 PM on 06/17/2010
Okay now whats a "Social Media Couple"?
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Build or Destroy
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01:00 PM on 06/17/2010
People got too much damn time on their hands...

[says person commenting on HP]
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Scott Ferren
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09:38 AM on 06/17/2010
That's pretty lame. It's like people want their lives to replicate The Sims game.
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Lore Splitt
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12:29 PM on 06/17/2010
People have been doing this on Second Life for YEARS now. If you haven't heard of it- it IS people living their lives in a Sims game. You do everything you'd do in real life, except "in a virtual world" (If you DARE call it a game, people will fiercely "correct" you).

If the people who have had this become their existance, did the SAME things in real life, they'd be successful I'm sure. The problem is that you can make money in Second Life... so, they can allow it to consume every moment of every day while still paying the rent and eating.

But they do the same thing. Get married on there- but they'll also agree to marry in real life without ever having met each other in person. Agree to be roommates without having met each other in person... and they'll do the same. Have an in game wedding, and also stream the real one for their SL friends.
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Paul OFlaherty
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08:30 PM on 06/17/2010
Scott, in no way do want our lives to replicate a game. We have been a couple for two years, met through social media, I make a flight between Ireland and the US every 3 months or so to be with Sara. This is the culmination of a real long distance relationship, between real people being completed in the real world.

We've opted to stream it online so that friends and family who can't be there, like all the people who have supported us over the last two years and my family who can't make it to the US from Ireland, will be able to be part of it. It would be unfair to cut them out considering that, through social media, they have been a part of it all along.
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