[losteverything]

I would never had thought a normal, well reared person would Google anybody just because they can. I think the net-natives think nothing of it and probably dont think it's wrong.

My comment demonstrated my discovery that I am not surprised it was from a young person.

[magic_beans]

You haven't explained why you think it's wrong to Google someone. Note: not everyone you encounter is a "normal, well-reared" person. Googling someone is a good way to weed out the less "well-reared".

[losteverything]

Hmm. Googling a person is nosey. Nosey is not desireable. Nosey is not acceptable behavior I had passed on to me and I passed it on to all my children.

Google lets a nosey person be nosey in private and anonymously. It is still not desireable.

Young people ( and some older ones) Google everything and think it's all the same. That was my point. Nobody my age tells me or my peers "Hay, I just found out our new manager is divorced and has 3 kids,and used to work for botuniverse.com."

I would directly ask that person "why on earth did you want to find that out!?!?"

Perhaps this is a generational think....

[derrickdirge]

Honestly I don't see how it's any different than a prospective employer running a background check on me, which has been a relatively common practice since before google achieved ubiquity.

Do you find that gauche as well?

[antisthenes]

You're projecting a lot of opinions without anything substantial to back it up.

Privacy has been dead for a while. What you call nosy, I call cautious, curious and well-informed.

Would it surprise you, that I, for example, looked up judiciary cases on some of my employees?