Should You "Google" A First Date?

Do you want to know the dish on your date before you meet? And should you reveal your findings?

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Blind dates are a thing of the past. In the digital age, it's so easy to find out everything about the person you're seeing before you even meet them, but is it an invasion of privacy? Where is the line between innocent surfing and cyberstalking?

In this video, dating coach and YourTango expert Julie Spira gives her number one netiquette rule on googling before a date. “People are doing it,” she says. “You just don’t need to be bragging about it.” You never know what you might find, so be careful!