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Congrats, Dana and Tracy!

First of all, Mashable and TechCrunch are too busy losing touch and being needlessly judgmental, so I’ll say what they both should have said: Congrats, Dana and Tracy!

On November, 21st, fellow Marylanders Dana Hanna and his bride Tracy got married. At the alter, he whipped out his cell and updated his Facebook status to “Married” and blasted out a quick tweet about getting hitched. He handed his wife her cell and she got in on the fun, too. Dana and the minister were the only ones in on it, so it was a big surprise for everyone in attendance.

Okay, it’s geeky, but it’s also a sweet gesture. His tweet reads, “Standing at the altar with @TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss my bride. #weddingday” See? Sweet.

Yesterday, tech blogger and semi-professional dick Michael Arrington shared the YouTube video in an article with the snarky title, “Really?” Commenters chimed in with, “Nerds!” and, “Weirdo nerds!”

Mashable’s coverage is also suspect. Jennifer Van Grove writes, “While all of us at Mashable are very avid Twitterers and Facebook users, updating our status at the altar might fall outside our comfort zone.” You’ve got to be kidding me. You guys make a living covering every aspect of social media, and the unique and fun ways in which people take advantage of them. When did you decide you were qualified to make judgement calls?

Some of the comments on Mashable are really harsh. “If I were her, I would have smacked him. That’s also so rude to their priest and the guests in attendance.” As noted above, the minister was in on it.

Another commenter writes, completely without irony, “There are some ethics that an intelligent and well-mannered person should respect. The person in the video is an obsessed, social networking addict.” Yes someone wrote that comment on a blog that focuses on social media and social networking in order to call someone else a “social networking addict.” Precious.

There seems to be a subtext of religious outrage and entitlement here. A Mashable commenter just can’t let it go, and posts the same re-worded comment almost a dozen times. ”Houses of God aka churches, are not places in which in the middle of ‘sacred ceremonies’ you pop out your mobile phone and tweet or Facebook about it.” What is this, the sixteenth century?

Hanna has also caught some serious heat on Twitter. I’m scratching my head about how this can be interpreted as anything but a fun, über-geeky stunt.

So let me get all of this straight. Michael Arrington and Jennifer Van Grove, people who make their livelihoods writing about the nerdiest of nerdy tech news, along with their nerdiest of readers who are nerdy enough to post nerdy comments on their nerdy posts have the audacity to suddenly look down on a nerdy stunt? And the people who learned about it on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are declaring this somehow out of bounds? Really?

It’s insane what people choose to get worked up about.

Hanna puts it best in a tweet he posted last night. “To all the criticizers of my video out there questioning my sanity: You don’t get it. I was having fun at MY wedding! Loosen up, have fun!”

Word.