Groom Updates Facebook Status… During Wedding Ceremony

// December 8th, 2009 // Information Overload

I was appalled when I first saw the headline about Dana Hanna on MSNBC. But if you watch the brief video of the ceremony (which he posted on YouTube) it’s actually quite sweet and everyone, including the bride and minister, appear to take it with good humour. I’m even prepared to believe there is a hint of irony in what he did.

Nevertheless, on an occasion where you are, in theory, surrounded – physically – by all your nearest and dearest, the electronic gossip wires still appear to exert a powerful pull. For Generation Y types, what is visible to the outside world digitally is possibly of more importance than what your immediate circle of family and friends might be experiencing. In terms of scale, it almost undoubtedly is since 350,000 people and counting have seen the video clip. But take the same behviour and put it in an organisational context and we have a partial explanation for the so-called “addiction” to BlackBerrys. That message probably isn’t something that affects your reputation in the digital universe – but it might be, and you won’t know until you check.

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One Response to “Groom Updates Facebook Status… During Wedding Ceremony”

  1. Nathan Zeldes says:
    10 December 2009 at 2:34 pm

    I agree, it does come across as quite sweet and innocent. And in some sense, updating his relationship with her for all his social circle to know is a loving act (not that it couldn’t have waited a minute).

    If you think this is extreme, a geek friend of mine once “live blogged” his daughter’s birth in real time on his handheld…