Google-ing your date?

[Anonymous]

Do you do it?

I recently did it to a guy I met online and found he is in a band.

I think he seems great and there isnt anything else that came up.

Do you mind if your date googles you? Would you think she was a stalker if you found out she did?

[Anonymous]

I think it is pretty normal for a certain age range and probably expected. DH joked that he tried to google me, but I share a name with a famous celeb (born after me so dibs on the name), so even if I was cray cray or had some weird stuff online, it would have taken forever to dig it up. I googled Dh and was pretty damn impressed by some of the articles I saw written about him in local papers, but I kept that to myself until he told me. But apparently my face gave it away when he did tell me because he said "you googled me didn't you?"

[Anonymous]

I google everyone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I google everyone!

Me, too. It's really amazing what you can find out about people.

I also google myself regularly to keep an eye on what is out there to find.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely...not only google but anyway else I can cyberstalk them - FB and other social media is fair game.

That's the reason my FB is deadly boring. What I don't want the world to know - I don't share.

I also check out the real estate price, property taxes, ownership info - if I have their home address.

So - Bite Me!

[Anonymous]

I don't mind if people Google me, because they won't find anything at all, except my locked Facebook page, where they can't see anything but my profile pic and name. My twitter account doesn't use my name, neither does Yelp. I have two volunteer gigs but one doesn't have a website and the other does but since I'm not on the board I'm not listed on the website. My name isn't on my company's website because I'm admin.

So go ahead and google me.

[Anonymous]

of course, you have to google in this day and age. You just don't let on that you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Absolutely...not only google but anyway else I can cyberstalk them - FB and other social media is fair game.

That's the reason my FB is deadly boring. What I don't want the world to know - I don't share.

I also check out the real estate price, property taxes, ownership info - if I have their home address.

So - Bite Me!

Did I write this?! We sound like the same person. Boy do I love looking up home prices, judging people I haven't seen since high school via Facebook, etc. If it's out there it's fair game.

[Anonymous]

Of course. Why wouldn't you?

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Absolutely...not only google but anyway else I can cyberstalk them - FB and other social media is fair game.

That's the reason my FB is deadly boring. What I don't want the world to know - I don't share.

I also check out the real estate price, property taxes, ownership info - if I have their home address.

So - Bite Me!

I do that for all my DC clasmates

[Anonymous]

Yes, thoroughly. It's just a good practice.

[Anonymous]

Yes! I also started doing this with doctors and dentists too.

Had a bad feeling about a consult with an oral surgeon... went home to Google him after- thank god I did! Now I get to tell the story of my brush with the "rape dentist" who was going to preform an unnecessary procedure on me, and if not for Google...

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

How would you feel if you were on the other side? If you found out the girl you asked out googled you before your date?

Would you still go thru with the date?

[Anonymous]

I am a women, so the above isn't asking me specifically.

But I would think it is just due diligence at this point for women to protect themselves when dating a stranger. I personally wouldn't want to date someone who had a problem with me looking out for myself...