Wednesday 4 May 2016

Meet the IRL Romeo and Juliet who met via Snapchat Story

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"I was so nervous. I knew so many people were watching."

Reed Bjork felt anxious as he walked toward The KK, a popular college bar near the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He was about to meet a pretty young woman for the first time — and a bunch of Snapchat strangers were there to witness it.

Within 24 hours, their romance unfolded on UW's campus Snap Story, capturing the attention of the student body. In subsequent days, the story of how they met went Internet viral. The YouTube video montage had more than 1.3 million views at the time of writing.

Last Thursday morning, Bjork, 22, learned he had an admirer. Abby Diamond, also 22 and a UW student, had posted a simple plea to the local campus story on Snapchat around 11 a.m.: "To the guy wearing the Vikings jersey in the UW Snap Story, I'm seriously in love with you. Find me." Read more...

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