social networks, chain mails, and extreme geekitude

[jrtom]

From a social networks email list I'm on:

This morning this link came via another maillist :
http://www.heiratsantrag-fuer-sandra.de/

The mail was a so called "Kettenbrief" or "chain mail" if this is the right word in english. This guy wants to makes a mariage proposal to his long time girlfriend, but he does not do it directly but sent the mail out to 50 people unknown to him and now wants to see when and how his proposal reaches his girlfriend, who doesn´t know that the email connected world is participating.

For those of you who know german or know anybody who can translate it, read his poem and what he writes on his web site. It´s the weirdest and most romantic use of social networking via email I have seen so far.

I don't speak nearly enough German to be able to parse the web page. (Anyone?) I'm not sure whether to be "awwwwww"'d, or disturbed, at this chain mail. I'd be fascinated to know her reaction once she gets it, though. (How would it feel to know that a few hundred strangers--and probably at least a few friends--knew that your boyfriend was proposing to you before you did?)

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[red-frog.livejournal.com]

I can only hope that either his girlfriend is as much of a social networking geek as he is or that she's secretly in on the plot.