Potential dates - do you google them?

[Noor]

A good friend of mine's now wife, spent a HUGE amount of time reading my and another friend of ours' blog posts back several years. I told him, and his comment was she must have wondered about something... Seemed like a red flag to me, I blocked her from facebook back then, I suspect she is still blocked now, no one has mentioned it. On the other hand she isn't ever mean about me or anything...

 

[bronzeage]

Bingo. I went out on a first date last summer, just dinner at a Mexican restaurant, and my date was telling me alll this stuff she'd found out about me on Google. Twas a bit uncomfortable actually.....

This is where you say, "Good. You brought lube, right?"

If a woman said she learned about me on Google, my first thought would be, "This certainly saves a lot of time."

 

[subdued_passion]

I've canceled lots of dates. If I'm not feeling it, I tell them so pretty clearly, but try to give at least a day's notice.

If you've never had a date cancel on you, then you must be attracting pretty desperate men.

I don't know, do you find me attractive?

Exactly. It's creepy. Soon you'll be able to wear Google Glasses and get reports on everybody you see in real time - kinda like in Daemon.

I prefer to show up unbiased and use my personal Sherlockian skills to assess my date. Thus I will walk away with my own opinion and not some amalgamated judgement of an internet tribunal. And maybe she's not comfortable with me knowing too much about about her too soon anyway.

If I get a bad vibe from her, I can always pull out my mad James Bond skillz later.

I like to get to know people on my own terms and in my own time. I have a few old friends that I still haven't gotten around to asking what they do professionally. I don't believe in saturating myself with unnecessary details. Plus you don't know how fair a representation a person's online persona is of their true self. I like to believe that people are multi-faceted and behave differently with different people, at least that's how I am.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't know, do you find me attractive?

I found you attractive.

But then I googled you.

Your Catholic school disciplinary record was almost three pages long! You were quite the hellion in school, young lady.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Because my freak magnet is always set to high frequency, anyone new yes I would. And I'd get my mate in the know to do a police check to see if he's a serial killer.