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"  Earlier this month, I was talking about my favorite tools for cyber-stalking a crush. (To wit: The ol&amp;#039; reliable Google search, the reading of the personal blog or checking of the personal web site, the perusal of a Facebook profile or Twitter account, the cross-checking of the Amazon wishlist).  But I also realize that in the last few years, I&amp;#039;ve tried to avoid doing too much online private eye work when it comes to someone new that I&amp;#039;m excited about. Maybe that&amp;#039;s partly because I&amp;#039;d prefer to have someone get to know me off-line, as an in-the-flesh human, rather than him forming too many opinions based on all the stuff that&amp;#039;s out there on the Internet about me. I try to do unto him as I&amp;#039;d have done to me, so to speak. It&amp;#039;s also because it can seem like a huge waste of time to amass a CIA-level file on some guy you&amp;#039;ve been correspondng with on OkCupid ... only to meet him in person and realize there&amp;#039;s no chemistry. And even (or especially) if there is chemistry, spending too much time researching a person can intensify the obsession for me in a way that I don&amp;#039;t like. I suppose it&amp;#039;s also just more fun to hear about a person&amp;#039;s backpacking trip through Europe when he tells you about it in person, rather than stopping him before he describes the wonderful little island in Greece where he spent a few months living in a hut with the admonition, &amp;quot;I already read about it in your blog.&amp;quot;  MIT technology professor Sherry Turkle comments on my kind of nostalgia in her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by quoting a high school kid who is weary of the endless virtual realities of today&amp;#039;s world. After commenting on how much work his schoolmates put into their Facebook profiles, he wistfully says, &amp;quot;It must have been nice when you could just discover a person by talking to them.&amp;quot; I agree! Do you too think that it&amp;#039;s nicer to get to know a person just by talking? Or am I being a fuddy-duddy? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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