I am such a voyeur.

I have a confession to make. I’m obsessed with Googling people. Almost everyone I meet these days gets run through a thorough search in Google; you would be amazed at the details available. Usually there is at least one hit for someone’s name that belongs to them; either a university, or a petition they have signed online, or an article, etc. From there I can usually find out where they work and from there, the possibilities can be endless depending on how much they’ve done in their lives. The question is, am I invading their privacy? Is it wrong that I know the academic and professional history of people that I am merely acquainted with when they know literally nothing about me? Which brings me to my next point, is it fair that I have created a web identity that is completely removed form my real name? If you search me in Google nothing will come up that has anything to do with the actual me. If you search “wattlebla”…there I am.

Tried to go snowboarding today and the mountain was closed! I guess they close for good after the Easter long weekend anyway, but I was really looking forward to one more good snow session.

A little while later…

I just had a great conversation with one of my co-workers. Typically I’m fairly shy at work so I don’t often get a chance to really hash it out with the people I work with. He told me all about himself and the story has satiated my daily need for personal details about the people around me. Going back to the Googling obsession; it’s clear to me that I should be engaging in actual human relations to get these details that I crave so much instead of furtively searching for them on the internet.

Hmmmm, food for thought.