I don't even know how to begin this morning's blog because I was so blown away by what I was told. I'm making it sound crazier than it is, but I was beyond impressed and kind of baffled at the same time when a friend of mine told me the following story.
Last week, my friend was set up on a blind date. Reluctant to actually go, she decided to just suck it up and make the most of it. Prior to going on the date we were chatting on the phone at work when I asked her what his name was and if she knew anything about him. She paused as if she was confused, of course she knew his name and yes, she knew a few details about him. He has blonde hair, a job in finance, and lives in Gramercy. Those details sound all good, next question. This was the obvious one, "Is he on Facebook?" Her reply, "I don't know, I didn't look." What do you mean? I don't understand. You can potentially see what this guy looks like before you go and you're choosing not to? And there I stood, shocked and confused.
Is it possible that there are people out there that don't use Facebook as the ultimate stalking tool? Let's say it was you going on the blind date, would you search the person out on Facebook first or would you go on this blind date truly blind of what the person looked like? I had no idea that some people were possible of this non-stalking behavior.
Turns out, they're not. When asking the vast majority of my friends and people that I associate with, my friend is one of very few people who don't use Facebook stalk. She said, she just didn't really care that much to look and was going to just go with the flow. Wow! I won't lie, I was totally impressed by this behavior. Good for her, doing things the old-fashioned way. Then it dawned on me, my friend is a normal human being. She's just being completely normal and taking things as they come, not consumed by the Facebook world and the power it holds. Next time you have a blind date, or are meeting someone you don't know, remember my friend and think about what she would do in this situation, be a normal human.
