Have you ever Googled your Date?
For those who are in the dating game, you would be surpised on how much information you can dig up on your date using the net these days.
Internet search has totally changed the dating scene. In traditional dating you find out about the person that you are dating by spending time with him/her, and perhaps even through friends or families. Nowdays with our good friend google you can find out more than you want to know about who you are dating within a couple of minutes.
This article takes a look at the current trend of googling for information about who you are dating.
Pam Smith, who went out with a “Nice” man three times got a rude awakending when she typed her date’s name into Google and saw his name on the Most Wanted List.
“…He was the nicest guy you could possibly want to meet…Now, I feel like a fool.”
Would you ever google your date? What happens if everyone’s information is made public? Is compromising user privacy a good cause for better or even safer dating? What are some of your thoughts?
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June 28th, 2007 at 10:25 am
who hasn’t googled a date?
especially with the women i date
June 28th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I think this is bogus. Why not hire a private investigator and do background checks on every guy you date? What a joke. If I got serious with a gal and then found out later she Googled me, it would be over. You yentas are too much. No wonder you’re single!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I would think that it is necessary to change the way we think of dating. It should not longer be out of desperation or need but out of readiness and fit don’t you think?
June 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
It is scary! Isn’t it? A friend of mine asked me once, have you ever type your name on google search. I replied what for. His answer is simple, you will find your name on the SERP. An he was right.
Thanks for visiting my blog
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
It’s really scary, when you see your name on the wanted list!!! But this is all the technology online…
July 4th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
word of caution… make sure you know you have googled the right person. A girl I know researched me for a bit, thought she knew me and found out she had been researching the wrong person.
Right name, wrong person. The other person had some writing about cute little kitty cats or something that she really loved. I’m not that kinda guy so her expectations were kinda screwed when she found out she had been researching the wrong person…
Was funny.
Btw, great photo above…
July 6th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Well, that’s creepy! But maybe this is just a trick to humiliate other people..what do you think?.. just maybe.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:18 am
this is a good blog posting….. yeah, at times you’ll be stunned wif the results
July 10th, 2007 at 5:27 am
oh Lordy that could be Trubble in Dodge!!
;))
July 12th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I Google each and every date! It’s always nice to be able to pull out those fun facts in mid-conversation. “So I hear you run a pretty mean marathon,” I said to a date on our first meeting between bits of my penne pasta and sips of a chardonnay. I had found times online in various marathons she’d run. She was surprised, but I’ve never had a negative reaction to it. Sure, it may feel a bit creepy to get Googled, but it sure shows your interested. It’s also helpful type the name both with and without quotes around it.
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July 14th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Ok.. Ok.. I will admit, I searched once, but it was in the court dockets, because what he was saying sounded funny and he said he was going to court but was being very evasive.. Well turns out he had just beat up his “girlfriend” and was getting charges pressed against him.. Was glad I snooped.. and with good reason!
July 19th, 2007 at 3:29 am
I DID google my match.com date, and all looked well……………fast forward 1 1/2 years later and there’s an entire blog written by women he “dated” trying to figure out what the hell just happened. Turns out this comedian and Improv manager has a rare crushing fetish and just wanted to talk about having women in shiney pants sit on mice while he filmed them. Well, at least new women will be warned. You can’t make stuff like this up!
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July 22nd, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I haven’t dated in some time (it would be terribly upsetting to my husband if I resumed) but if I were dating, I would definitely google my date. I would also expect him to google my name.
By the same I’ve looked up old friends online prior to meeting up with them. I ended up more than once because I decided that what I found online was way too creepy.
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August 18th, 2007 at 3:54 am
I wish i would have googled my match.com date Howie Nave (http://todatehowienave.blogspot.com) before I started writing him a year ago. I would have found out then that he was IMing and emailing many ladies about wearing shiny pants and pumps and sitting on mice, hamsters and other creatures while he took photos. He drove many ladies including myself into counseling. Next time I ever date, I will google google google and yahoo yahoo yahoo !
August 20th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Wow. On the most wanted list. You’d never think that anyone you meet would have a bounty on their head. I always check out people I date online, lots of times there is soo much information.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Oh, what fun there is to find on the modern snooping machine of the internet! This isn’t about dating really, but hope you’ll include it. It’s fun.
I’ve learned that you can find just about anything you want to know or find a lot of people from the past. It’s so interesting!
I have to admit that I got a little morbid for my first few months of having the internet. People at work would occassionally ask, “Still finding new dead people?” Back then ancestry.com had a lot more free areas to look up, and I, for some odd reason, was spending way too much time looking up all of my childhood friends’ parents.
Then I moved on to a new interest of finding out how much all of my friends’ houses cost. zillow.com gives their “zestimations” of property and house value, but if the house was sold more recently, you actually get the real value. Interesting (and nosey, I know).
Another great find was zoominfo.com. I found a highschool boyfriend and a few others, but the best one was finding my childhood playmate. He was a big boy for his age, and I was small for my age. I was a tomboy, and he was somewhat of a bully. Maybe it was his big blue eyes, but he came off as somewhat dumb. One day he got the notion that we should take turns tieing each other up in his tree fort, and see who could get out faster. My turn was first and I wriggled out of the grips of his carefully tied knots, and then shimmied down the one of the supports of the treehouse. (His treehouse had been built by the same builders who had build his famiy’s house.) Then it was his turn. I tied some expert knots taught to me by my one and only big brother and took off, leaving him to escape at his best pace.
Minutes past and no sign of my buddy. No sound, no nothing. Then at long last I heard him calling my name in a whining sort of cry, and I hesitated thinking it was a prank on his part. I was afraid to put the ladder up to the treehouse to go to his aid, because I figured he’d push the ladder backward, knocking me off and flyiing.
Finally, when I heard full-blown screaming, I went up, and there he was, still tied up with a tear streaked face. I rescued him from my own work of art around his wrists with no thank you in return. He instead climbed down to the ground and ran in his house and told his nanny who had never met me. Thus I became the bully, that is, until she saw me approaching with all of my height being about half his size.
Well, upon seeing my old friend on his website for his business, he appears to be a warm, kind, gentle man. So instead of googling my date, maybe I might like to date my google. We last saw each other some 40 odd years ago. Wouldn’t that be something if I walked into his business and asked him if he wanted to try the old treehouse contest again? lol (jk)
September 1st, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I think it’s quite hard to google a person’s information because there are too many similar names. I tried that too but it wasted lots of my time
September 19th, 2007 at 11:56 am
I had this experience as I want to find an age gap relationship with someone, fortunately, google search do a big favor for me, I met someone at Agematch.com -one site for age-gap relationship, it’s a wonderful experience for me even at last I had to break up with the one for some reason, however, you can find your lover by search some good online site.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:34 am
I think that people should communicate, no matter where they do it – in real life or in Internet.