hmdreamer7 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Do you Google/search for someone before going out on a date with them? Do you Google them while you're dating them? Do you Google potential baby names to find the least common name to give your baby? Link to comment
ghost69 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 i google zero things on a potential date or when i'm dating them. why would i need to do that? baby names? no time in the next 3 years do i see a need for this. Link to comment
RooferGirl23 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 No, i have never googled anyone and if I hed felt the need to, I would not go out on a date. baby names should come from the heart and have great meaning. for example, my son Christopher is named after my hubby's brother, who died by train when he was just 12. My oldest son is named after his daddy. Link to comment
violingirl Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Do you Google/search for someone before going out on a date with them? Do you Google them while you're dating them? Do you Google potential baby names to find the least common name to give your baby? I do Google someone prior to going out on a date with them, especially if it is a blind date and/or first time I am meeting that guy - just as a general precaution and for my own safety. I may occasionally Google a guy while I am dating them. I don't see how that is wrong in any way. It is all public information, after all. I do not Google baby names. I already have some in mind if I am ever fortunate enough to have children someday. Link to comment
hmdreamer7 Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 I guess I posed the baby name question because I've read posts about women searching for names + their last name, to see what came up. If my first & last name is less common, I am more likely to pop up in searches, which could become important for self-advertising & businesses? I really have no clue it's just a guess, I just wanted to know what other mothers/fathers thought. I would think some people would be interested in finding out more about someone before a potential date? Kind of like checking out their facebook/myspace profile to get a better idea of their personality... Link to comment
comfyshoes Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 when did a myspazz or fakebook profile ever give an true indication of someone's personality?? Link to comment
Batya33 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I googled names before I met someone through the internet - but that wasn't a date it was a first meeting. I am glad I did - I found out that one had been charged with a serious crime (I cancelled the date), one had a freakish web site (also cancelled), and several lied about their age including one who bragged he had been married to a well known woman who was "5 years younger than him" - well, her age was on several web sites. I cancelled all of those dates, too. I always tried to get the last name or enough unique details to be able to google. It was for safety reasons. Link to comment
hmdreamer7 Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 when did a myspazz or fakebook profile ever give an true indication of someone's personality? Haha, that's a good point, you probably can't get a real idea of a person's soul from it! But, you could find out things like: if they're in school and what they study, hobbies, even their photos can show you if a person is adventurous or a partier. Link to comment
capbit Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Haha, that's a good point, you probably can't get a real idea of a person's soul from it! But, you could find out things like: if they're in school and what they study, hobbies, even their photos can show you if a person is adventurous or a partier. I wouldn't google, but most likely they have a facebook profile. It's not a good indication of who they are, but there are some general things you can pick out. Link to comment
catwalk Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 YES YES & I google names, but not to find the least common, just to find names in general I google everything! Link to comment
southerngirl Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I have googled names out of just being plain bored and needing entertainment, but thats about as far as it goes. Link to comment
comfyshoes Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Haha, that's a good point, you probably can't get a real idea of a person's soul from it! But, you could find out things like: if they're in school and what they study, hobbies, even their photos can show you if a person is adventurous or a partier. my ex has a myspazz profile. on it she states one of her interests as writing poetry. the poems that she has posted on it are my work. she likes to travel also. most of the pictures of her 'travels' are pictures that i sent her of places she has never been. i did google her name once after we had been together for a couple of years. she shares her name with a pornstar that i guess must be rather well know judging by the number of results it returned. maybe that's just another part of her life she kept hidden from me! Link to comment
Phaser Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Actually something of interest is that businesses have starting looking up potential employees on myspace and stuff to check up on them. People who list getting drunk or whatever as interests usually don't get the job. Link to comment
loveistough Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 i google zero things on a potential date or when i'm dating them. why would i need to do that? It can be helpful in finding out things in their past if they have something to hide. I think women do this a lot more than men. I have googled a few guys. I'm not looking for small trivial stuff but I would like to know ahead of time if they are a convicted ax murderer. Link to comment
loveistough Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Actually something of interest is that businesses have starting looking up potential employees on myspace and stuff to check up on them. People who list getting drunk or whatever as interests usually don't get the job. I've been hearing about this a lot lately. People need to be really careful about what they post on there. Link to comment
rocio Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 my friend googled a guy she'd gone out with a few times and found that he was only a decade and a half older than he claimed. Link to comment
luxe_13 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Do you Google/search for someone before going out on a date with them? Guilty. Though it's usually after I've had a date with them and like the person.. I wouldn't bother pre-date, I think it's up to the date to get a first impression.. Link to comment
doyathink Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I've tried! But any info on them had to be paid for. How do you get any info on someone without having to pay for it? Link to comment
sweetharmony Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 yes yes, checked the myspace thing.... but no never googled baby names... but I admit (when I'm in a serious relationship, I google my first name with their last name (in case we ever married) to see if anyone else would have the same name and what they do! this is all for fun, though...(i wasn't seriously thinking I was going to marry them). oops, admitted too much here. Link to comment
PixelPusher Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I never thought about it, but my girlfriend did when she was first curious about me (and long before we started to get to know each other). She told me later it discouraged her because she ran accross some reference that mentioned I was married. The reference was outdated, though... I had been divorced for a while when she saw that. Link to comment
comfyshoes Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 This thread made me curious. I just googled my name and my husband's in two indepedent searches. Nothing about either of us showed up. I'm glad. LOL Love "myspazz" and "fakebook" as parody names for these sites. LMAO can't take credit for those names. i saw someone else use them here and promised to help him in his quest to make it universal language. Link to comment
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