Background Checks and Dating

As seen at Sweet Eugunes’, a coffee shop in College Station, TX. Perfectly captures the dilemma between hard-to-resist urge to run Internet background checks on your date and the joy of slowly discovering the person that you’ve just met. And don’t tell me you haven’t Googled everyone from your spouse to the casual acquaintance you just made.

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  • bongopondit

    And don’t tell me you haven’t Googled everyone from your spouse to the casual acquaintance you just made.

    No. Honestly. I’ve heard about people googling prospective dates etc. I will google prospective employers or hires, but casual acquaintance? Really, that’s the done thing now ?

  • http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix

    @bongopondit: I use ‘Googling’ as a catch-all phrase for online information and I meant reading more information from social networking sites like Linked In, Facebook, etc. Admit it or not, we often get information about their past, interests, activities first from their profiles than we do after talking to them. A casual acquaintance might not say, he enjoys spelunking in your second meeting but he might be a fan of it on Facebook or might have photos doing it.

    Update: I have been the object of Google searches by bloggers, believe it or not.

  • http://sherenejose.com Sherene

    I am quite upfront about whatever I know about people from FB/Twitter/Googling…I get teased about my so-called ‘FB-stalking tendencies’ and such but it is so much easier than playing mind-games and trying to hide what you already know about the other person. And sometimes, you inadvertently get to know more info than you were looking for, for instance, when you accept someone’s FB request.

  • http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix

    @Sherene: You bet. And that’s what I was alluding to. I know a friend who used to love to stalk Orkut scraps and deduce hidden relationships. In fact, my blog helped my girlfriend now wife know more about the shy introvert me. The blog archives were never used more rigorously :)


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