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Google Stalking is Sabotaging Your Love Life
Don’t turn your next date into a job interview
Do you like to be prepared for a first date? Of course you do. You don’t like surprises. So, before that first meeting, you do what any responsible, prudent adult does — you gather intel.
You discover your date makes a mean soufflé and volunteers at your local soup kitchen. You learn your crush adores Pam from The Office and is civilized enough to know pineapple on pizza is barbaric. Sure, maybe you get a little creeped out by his collection of vintage unicorn figurines and his proclivity to pepper his travel blog with the word “epic,” but you reason it is better to know now.
You know all this beforehand, not because you asked your date but because you asked Google. Google is your secret weapon — your personal Will Smith whispering pithy love advice into your ear. And you are going to slam dunk this date like Jordan released from gravity because you have mastered the first date, “Google stalk.”
Google stalk: “To stalk someone using the search engine Google to turn up information about the person that can be found on the Internet.”
You might think Google is helping you avoid that awkward first date silence, but rubbernecking your date’s Reddit profile sabotages romance. And you might not…
