Modern Lovers

[Squid]

Damn!@!

I was waiting to bust that one on you.

 

Now the punchline's pre-empted.

[foraker]

why do i detect an underlying assumption that if you are a guy and google a girl, it's creepy and stalking whereas if a girl does it, then it's 'being safe'?

[Cobra_Commander]

Cobra Commander, when not taking over the planet, likes to read to children, and sip quality espresso. If you have a problem with that I will drop an h-bomb on your ass.

[minx]

why do i detect an underlying assumption that if you are a guy and google a girl, it's creepy and stalking whereas if a girl does it, then it's 'being safe'?

 

b/c you're right on the money about the assumption and that statement in general. reality bites eh?

[foraker]

doesn't bite for me, i'm married. :-)

[archenemy]

I didn't see a mention of "being safe", maybe I just overlooked it. But no, I don't think the story is any different in any case. How would google info lead to a good coversation anyway? What's your lead-in, "Hey, I was doing some online stalking and I found out you like to post inane comments in spray." Does that work?

[specialed]

Cobra Commander, when not taking over the planet, likes to read to children

 

Note the title of the publication that Cobra Commander is reading to the children. I see what else you like to do with your spare time Mr. Cobra Commander. Poor, poor goat.

[jmace]

If some broad said she checked me out on the internet I would promptly walk out, weirdo, she probably online dates: translates to I have no life skills

[ChrisT]

the key is selective editing - don't upload anything about yourself that you don't want the world to know about.

[Camilo]

Nice stirrups.

[jmace]

I keep home home phone unlisted, i dont upload nutin, and I pay cash for my shite

[Dru]

I keep home home phone unlisted, i dont upload nutin, and I pay cash for my lovin

[NTM]

according to google i'm the director of finance at JD Power and Associates hopefully that fat paycheck will show up at my door soon!

googling someone is creepy, don't do it. just sack up and ask.

[olyclimber]

I keep home home phone unlisted, i dont upload nutin, and I pay cash for my shite

I wear a tin foil hat and say 7 hail marys before I go to bed every night. But somehow those pics still end up on the internet.

[Gary_Yngve]

If some broad said she checked me out on the internet I would promptly walk out, weirdo, she probably online dates: translates to I have no life skills

 

What's wrong with googling someone prior to a date?

 

I assume you check out the webpage of a company before interviewing for a job there?

[ChrisT]

it could be considered flattering that someone took the time and effort to google.

[Squid]

If some broad said she checked me out on the internet I would promptly walk out, weirdo, she probably online dates: translates to I have no life skills

 

You obviously haven't plumbed the depths of desperation.

 

Or savored the fruits of very low standards.

[specialed]

it could be considered flattering that someone took the time and effort to google.

 

Yeah that .654 seconds is sure a tender sign of commitment and love.

[ChrisT]

it could be considered flattering that someone took the time and effort to google.

 

Yeah that .654 seconds is sure a tender sign of commitment and love.

 

it's the thought that counts - kinda like doing research.

[olyclimber]

cute! what a cuddly little stalker, hunting down tidbits about me on the Information Superhighway.

[minx]

If some broad said she checked me out on the internet I would promptly walk out, weirdo, she probably online dates: translates to I have no life skills

 

You obviously haven't plumbed the depths of desperation.

 

Or savored the fruits of very low standards.

 

based on the tone of his post, i think specialed has.

[bunglehead]

I didn't see a mention of "being safe", maybe I just overlooked it. But no, I don't think the story is any different in any case. How would google info lead to a good coversation anyway? What's your lead-in, "Hey, I was doing some online stalking and I found out you like to post inane comments in spray." Does that work?

 

[Double_E]

I find that a lot of the women who are quick to talk about the dangers of "stalkers" or ... "creepy" guys ... seem to fall in one of three categories:

 

 

1) They have personally been stalked (or worse) by a creepy guy, and it was a scary, traumatic experience, OR...

 

2) They're rather fat and/or ugly, and secretly wish that once, just for once, someone would actually stalk them, OR...

 

3) They enjoy watching a nice, sensitive guy squirm in his seat and rush to reassure the rest of the room that he would NEVER do anything to harm a woman or make her feel uncomfortable ... I've watched this exact kind of scenario unfold on more than one occasion.

[fenderfour]

Nice stirrups.

 

Those are gaiters asshole. Cobra Commander is a Mountie.

[graupel]

I haven't verified it, but for true cyberstalkers, supposedly revealing things can be found by searching http://www.zabasearch.com/ .

 

Google is informative. Not morally different than seeing if there is anything on a particular subject by doing a search in the magazine database in the public library. It is what you do with the information that could make you creepy.