If you couldn't resist sticking your next date's name in Google and nervously scanning the search results, fear not because you're not alone.
A new survey conducted by Amor.com, Date.com and Matchmaker.com examined whether people are willing to Google one another before embarking on their first date and more importantly, whether they would admit to it.
It turned out that 71.5 percent of women and 80 percent of men would not tell their online dates that they had Googled their names because they were worried that this behavior would seem creepy.
But why bother investigate your date in such a fashion? Men and women don't exactly trust everything they read in dating profiles, the survey revealed.
Approximately 70 percent of men and 75 percent of women think that the online dating profiles they read either stretch or alter the truth.
Date.com relationship advisor Shira Zwebner doesn't think it's a good idea to let on that you've Googled your date. She says to tell the other person would 'be a big mistake' and 'it can be a tremendous turnoff.'
A new survey conducted by Amor.com, Date.com and Matchmaker.com examined whether people are willing to Google one another before embarking on their first date and more importantly, whether they would admit to it.
It turned out that 71.5 percent of women and 80 percent of men would not tell their online dates that they had Googled their names because they were worried that this behavior would seem creepy.
But why bother investigate your date in such a fashion? Men and women don't exactly trust everything they read in dating profiles, the survey revealed.
Approximately 70 percent of men and 75 percent of women think that the online dating profiles they read either stretch or alter the truth.
Date.com relationship advisor Shira Zwebner doesn't think it's a good idea to let on that you've Googled your date. She says to tell the other person would 'be a big mistake' and 'it can be a tremendous turnoff.'
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