Guys, I have a question for you. There is something I'm seeing a lot lately and I just can't fucking figure it out.
I'm a kinky female. I'm into some rather dirty things, but otherwise am a 'normal', functioning member of society. I go to school, work, have friends, travel, do normal people shit. I'm a genuine person, and would like to think that one day maybe I'll end up dating a kinky guy who is also a normal functioning member of society.
Because of my kinks, meeting said kinky guy isn't something that can be achieved at the bar down the block. So, occasionally, if I happen to be in a topical chat room and spend time chatting with someone who seems interesting, I'll exchange contact info.
Obviously, I have a fake name and a non-descript email address for early interactions. If things go well after a while, I bump them up to my normal email. This recently happened with a guy I was chatting with. He seemed interesting and cool, etc, etc, outside of his filthy mind. My bumping him up was a sign of trust, right? Right.
Well, in our conversations, I mentioned that I had been on television and I disclosed the channel name. After I sent him the first email from my normal address, he responds back "Yadda yadda, P.S. You looked cute on Enter Channel Name Here."
Which, anyone with half a brain can guess means that he googled me. Yes, I gave him my name, and knew that would give him access to whatever comes up in a search for my name. However, it's my personal belief that even if you are given someone's full name in this sort of situation, googling that person is an invasion of privacy. It's like googling your date before you meet them. I don't think it's cool.
So, I responded by saying that I wish he hadn't googled me, trusted him with my name, not regretted it. He then tells me that he was joking. That he "was just being cute and whimsical". He said he guessed he didn't realize that in text, "cuteness is hard to see."
Cute and whimsical? Seriously?
I've had this scenario act itself out a couple times lately, though the previous occasion was less invasive and had nothing to do with my personal info.
When chatting with and genuinely hoping to get to know someone, is it a common occurrence for you lot to make jokes about stalking them/doing internet searches on the person?
I really do not believe that he didn't google me. Unless you are purposefully trying to freak someone out for a laugh, I really can't even find a perspective to look at this through that makes it funny.
What the shit is this shit about, man?