Googling your crush
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
As some of you may already know, I am obsessed with Googling myself. I know, it’s terrible. But lately, I’ve taken this whole Googling thing to a whole new level: I’m Googling old crushes, friends, and enemies from 15 and 25 years ago.
Yup, totally insane, I know. But, it’s kind of fun to read about someone who you knew when you were, like, five. Take my friend Krissy from Iowa. The two of us became best friends when we were only four, and always thought we’d stay BFFs. Then I moved and we lost touch. I Googled her recently and found out she just got married. Useless information? No, not really, I’m really happy to know what she’s up to.
Krystal, my arch nemesis from the 5th grade, still lives in New Mexico, is also married, and had a kid. Still hate her? Nope. We were just different people—she was one of the cool kids and I wasn’t.
Oh, and dreamy Alexis, my long time cello playing crush from middle school. Sad to report, he’s married—gosh, I wasted a lot of time daydreaming about our wedding day.
While perhaps slightly distrubing on my part, I love knowing what these people are up to after all these years. Although I don’t know their entire story, it’s nice just to be able to read an exerpt. After all, at one point, these individuals played a major role in my mini universe.
So confess: have you Googled a crush?
Constantly.
I use Nexis. That way I can find their Social Security number, address, criminal record, assets, any lawsuits they’ve been involved in, voter registration and so on.
No, seriously, though — totally sane. Totally sane.
Nexis, huh? Very interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.
Anytime. You have to pay for the people search function, though, which is — as I understand it — not cheap.
I’ve totally googled past friends, etc., however I never seem to have much luck tracking them down. Maybe the folks I knew never amounted to anything.
For some, like my hotty crush Alexis, you know, the one I was supposed to marry, it took multiple Google searches. He was tough to track down and required a mix of key words. See, I’m sick.
I Googled my first semi-regular partner of an intimate nature, only to find out that he’s totally living his (professional) dream at the level at which he dreamed it and looks exactly the same as he did the last time I saw him.
Thanks to my patent method of burning every bridge I cross, there’s no point to me getting his contact information and saying to him how great it was to find him in such happy straits. Plus I’m MySpaced to most of his buddies so I figure if he wanted to say “Hi” by now, he would have.
It was a sad enough realization to swear me off looking back for at least a few weeks.
Sick indeed. What are ya gonna do?
MySpace is the way to go in my opinion in regards to checking out the doings of past associates. Like people said, googling is very word sensative and can take multiple searches while MySpace links you with the six degrees of seperation principle.
Well Joe, I think I’m gonna have make peace with the whole thing. On another note, my arch nemesis Krystal dated Alexis in 7th grade for like a week. The popular girls should stick to their own kind: football players… and stay away from the cute, cello playing artsy types who are supposed to be dating the nerdy girl with big glasses (i.e. me).
Quite a bit actually.
I just tell myself, that as long as I don’t do it more than twice a week, it’s a perfectly healthy hobby.
Of course, that’s not what my Psychologist father tells me…