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She told me that in this day and age, everyone googles you, I disagree. What do you guys think?
Sorry, but she's right. Well, maybe not literally everyone googles their dates, but anyone who doesn't is probably either not a very curious/inquisitive person or not interested enough in you to bother. I tend to assume women I meet who show an interest in me are going to Google me. Like you, I am a fairly private person, so my solution is to make sure I don't put anything on the internet that I don't want people to see.
You need to get over it. Your privacy ended the moment you did anything online.
She is absolutely correct--everyone googles people. If I have an interview set up with someone, am meeting a new client for the first time, wonder about my new neighbors, or any of the 100's of ways I come into contact with new people (or even people I know) I google them.
Frankly if I was this woman, I would run from you as reaction is over the top.
Yep. His reaction was over the top, and it sounds like he takes himself WAY too seriously. If I were her, I'd run, too.
A man I have been talking to online, yesterday gave me last name and phone number and mentioned "in case I wanted to Google him."
Since I use the same net handle in a few places I post, including where he found me, more or less...and the one where, if you Google it, it comes up most, is here at C-D...I wonder if he's read any of my stuff here. I'd be OK with it. I don't hide much of anything about myself from people, especially when I consider beginning a relationship thing with 'em. If they want to know, let them know.
I did, in fact, Google him.
The one thing I've been able to easily find out about certain people, that I make a deliberate point of NOT examining anymore, is family information. Between Ancestry and one other "free family tree" site, a Google search can easily lead pretty much anyone that knows a full name and general location of residence, to find out who your immediate family are, their ages, and their addresses and possible phone numbers. I actually do think that's a bit potentially invasive, and I was a bit shocked when I first found it.
LOL, I got assigned a group for a series of group projects and team presentations this semester in my grad program, and I absolutely came home and googled every single one of the people in my group. Oooh, invasive!
Im sorry but given what i found out after the fact about a couple of men i dated briefly several years ago after we broke up?
I have no qualms googling a fool in a hot minute...
Dwi"s...domestic violence charges..assault and battery..wowzers..
It made sense hindsight 20/20...I was so glad I dodged those bullets..
The internet is great for research and knowledge about anything and everything..
It can tell you if someone is addicted to adultfriend websites.porn sites. Serial dsters.. criminals.
My thing is? If you are a good person? Why do you care?
I am a very private person and I believe in privacy above all else when it comes to my life.
She told me that in this day and age, everyone googles you, I disagree. What do you guys think?
NOBODY is exempt from getting Googled. Welcome to the Age of Technology while "privacy" dwindles into extinction. If you have something to hide, it's available for search in the same computer you're using to post this thread.
Same goes for our medical files, same goes for an employer who wants to spend the high dollars having job applicant's backgrounds and emails checked (and, yes, some are doing this - it was a shocking revelation shared in a job workshop class I took three years ago).
As for your date, since the information is available then of course she will take advantage of it if she's seriously considering seeing you again. You could even take that as a compliment, really. If she didn't like you at all to begin with, she wouldn't bother with Google.
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