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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
(ii) Any admission of pre-knowledge of this is tantamount to admitting I googled them (it's really the only way I'd have found out about it). How socially acceptable is googling people now?
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Why is it an admission? You could have come across the coverage a thousand different ways. You're a lawyer; you do random research all the time. Say an article popped up at random in a Lexis search and you remembered his name. Or you were travelling through South Bandersnatch on business last year and happened to catch an article in the South Bandersnatch Picayune & Globe/Gazette that mentioned it. Of course, you didn't really think of it until the conversation just now brought it back to top of mind: how did all that work out, anyhow?
That's if Googling is not socially acceptable, which I think it is, as long as it isn't creepy. I recently confessed to another board regular that I had Googled ems real-world identity out of curiosity; perhaps em will pipe in with how creepy that was. (Note: em is the only person on the board whose real name I actually know, so if you haven't met me in person, I haven't Googled you.)
