nyctea scandiaca, that sounds like the plot of a Meg Ryan movie.
Glad it worked out.
I never thought to do it, but after a quickie with Google, I found nothing about a high school boyfriend, and some interesting stuff about my ex-husband. There was always this “Big Family Secret” that Was Not To Be Talked About. We were married for three years and I never did find out what it was. When I looked him up, I found his sister looking for a brother who was given up for adoption at what must have been the time his parents divorced. I’m guessing his mom got pregnant and then they separated, or she found out she was pregnant after they separated, or maybe she was pregnant by someone else… who knows? I guess she figured two kids was all she could handle alone and decided to give up this third one. Anyway, from the stuff I found, the baby had both of my ex’s (and his sister’s) parents listed on his original birth certificate, but that would have been changed after his adoption. She’d posted on a couple of Adoption MBs with her name and email looking for him. I guess that was the Big Family Secret.
My ex boyfriends all have common last names… Brown, Jackson, Walker, Smith. No luck on google. However, I did find 2 of their mugshots on the local court records website. :rolleyes:
I googled my own name and found my name mentioned on an old friend’s Xanga site. That’s a bit odd.
I just Googled my High School Sweetheart and the only possible hit for him came from the IMDB site. He always wanted to go into film and the only movie on his filmography was filmed in Vancouver, so it is in his area too. Well if it is in fact him, good going. I’m glad he is doing what he loved to do.
I don’t think about my exes much, but a while ago I did Google my first serious boyfriend – and found him, complete with pictures! No idea what he does for a living, but he’s the drummer for a band in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He’s gained a ton of weight, and is married (I saw a wedding band in one of the photos). One day last year I was on the phone with my old college roomate, and we were doing some serious reminiscing about the men we dated. I’ve always regretted the way things ended with that guy, so I looked him up while we were talking. I’d never contact him or anything, but it was interesting to find him.
That’s the first (and so far, only) time I’ve ever looked up an ex.
Holy F***! I just googled my last three girlfriends and got them as the first hit on their first Google pages! Granted, they have uncommon names and interests (e.g., Marjorie Benipoot playing the harmonium), but top of the page! Double Holy S***!!! I just googled the woman who devirginated me and she’s on the top of the first Google page, too!
Me? My name is the Hispanic version of “Bob Smith.” Even though I have a vanity website (myfirstnamelastname.com), I don’t show up AT ALL. Too much chaff; I’m all but a cipher. (But apparently I’ve dated rather exceptional women!)
Apparantly I’m from Australia, living in New Zealand; from Yorkshire, living in Turin; from New Zealand, living in the USA; I’m a top fuel dragster racer, am working on a post doctorate in some social science, am a counselor for a major university, am a real estate lawyer for a major firm, I kayak, hang glide, like punk rock revival, recently shaved my beard, and I finally divorced the bitch (yeay me).
I haven’t used my real name much on the net. Went to page 10 and still hadn’t found the right me.
I have the LJ username of one of my exes and the Xanga of another (the only ex that really matters), and the one is a verifiable loser (I mean, it was verifiable when I stopped going out with her, but it’s even more obvious now), and the other is married and happy, and I’m happy for her (she could update her Xanga more often, though).
I just googled my first ex’s username and they all came up with car websites. He was obsessed with his car. Then I googled his real name and it came up with a bunch of license plates websites. He had like a million license plates, he collected them as a hobby.
I used ot read his Xanga until I realized that his Xanga was pretty much just like his life. Filled with boring talk about Celicas and Texas and the south shall rise again. Yeah. I broke up with him for a reason. Funny to see that he hasn’t changed a bit in over three years.
Saw this thread, and did it with one that I no longer keep in touch with. She’s got her own Web site, with with talent agency portfolio-style photos. Another site has her voiceover and video demos, and even more portfolio photos.
Feeling eerily stalkerish, I hit the back button and got out of there.
I just googled my ex-husband and found a beautifully evocative comment to a blog, written about polyfidelity, defending his relationship with his girlfriends.
I’m all warm and fuzzy now; I’m glad to know that he’s not just telling me that he’s deliriously happy-- he is deliriously happy.
The last time I did it, I found he’d taken any mention of me out of the little autobiography he keeps up on his site.
It hurt for about a minute, till I thought about the fact that I am completely blameless in our break-up. I do wonder a little about how he feels about it, since he bothered to remove me.
Heh. Just found one. She seems to be the only one on the web, thanks to double-barrelling her already unusual surname when she got married. Has a book or two to her name on the subject of SSADM (it’s much less exciting than you’re thinking) thanks to HMSO.
And also the Cheatin’ Ex, no less, under her married name - just an entry on a registry of antiques dealers.
Otherwise - hey, I don’t have that many exes in the first place.
One. I periodically Google her name (I used to have better luck with Ixquick), almost always to no avail. We broke up under shitty circumstances, and I’m probably better off without her in my life. I must admit I never did find a girl who kissed like she did, or got my humor, or was willing to endure the silliest things just to spend time with me.
On the other hand it underscored two major failings of mine: I don’t deal with ultimatums well and I will almost always choose my ego over swallowing my pride.
I’ve googled exes (or found info from other sources) just to see what they have been up to. Nothing stalkerish about that, unless you are doing it obsessively.
One ex-gf appears to be making quite a name for herself in the nuclear science field. She was a nuke engineering student at U of M when we dated, so it’s good to see that her career path is working out. I did hear that she might now have sickle cell and is quite sick
Another ex got a job w/ the Chicago DOT as a traffic analyst, but she appears to have left that job recently and has dropped off the radar.
One ex married a guy old near old enough to be her father. Her mother died of a heart attack AT her wedding :eek: and according to court records they filed for a divorce just 3 years later.
There are more, but those are the more interesting ones.
Yeah, I didn’t like it either but…I was glad to see he’s happy at least. We didn’t part on that good terms, but we had a good run while it lasted. So hey, he’s doing great and I won’t check on him again.
But man, he has thousands of pics on his webpage. Thousands!
I did it a few weeks ago on my first boyfriend, because of an email I got from Classmates that said he’d recently been “found.”
He seems to have headed in the general direction in life that he intended back in high school. And he seems, from the one magazine interview I read, to still be insufferably arrogant.
Actually, the high-tech company he started appears to have fizzled, and there’s no recent information about him.
I hadn’t thought about googling my ex-husband, or any other ex-boyfriends, actually. I’d be surprised if I found anything on any of them.
