Google Perplex

The Boston Globe ran an interesting article Sunday on how Google has altered our social interactions.

A sample: Her date admitted to Googling before all first dates but said he had good reason. Once, when he delayed his search until after the date, he stumbled onto an obscure portion of an out-of-the-way Web site where the woman he had just dined with was mentioned. "That's how he learned she had been a he," Leger says.

[Via Gene Healy, who comments, "If you're worried about your life being all over the web for anyone to see, don't write anything, and never–never–date a girl with a blog."]