Every millennial is basically an amateur private detective based on our Internet expertise. And there’s nothing we use our virtual stalking skills more for, than dating. We match with a stranger on Tinder and then we use Google to find any public social media they have so we can scroll through their entire life before meeting them IRL.
The question is:Does having all access to all this info ruining dating?
Dating experts say light snooping is fine, but since nobody just clicks on one picture, or reads just one of their tweets, it’s becoming an issue.Julie Spira, an online dating expert, says it kills some of the magic. “When you get to the date, it's good to be conversational and see if you have chemistry,” she explains. “But no one wants to feel like their date did a background check on them before meeting for the first time."
The other issue with your cyber-stalking is that you’re letting their online presence be your first impression instead of a real-life first impression.You wouldn’t want someone to judge you based on posts you put up 5-10 years ago, would you?Yet we do that to our matches all the time. Spira adds, “Some old entries might not be relevant to who the person is today.”
- But since some people just can’t help themselves the most important thing you can do about Dating Google Snooping is to clean up your feeds. Matchmaker and dating expert Carmelia Ray says that single people should "Google themselves and clean up anything in their past or online footprint they may not be proud of."
Source:Elite Daily