As technology has advanced, so too has dating. Gone are the days of going to the sock hop-skip and waiting for your beau to show up to offer you a dance and buy you a soda or whatever; now we can basically guild a boo on requirement with the flick of a wrist and the press of a button. I’m not here to go all Baby Boomer on you and deplore the downfall of dating and mystery as we know it, though. With increased technology comes greater visibility and more accountability. This isn’t like when our moms were dating, where they’d go out with a person and hope he didn’t turn out to be a sociopath later on down the line.( Dangerously, a good deal of my mom’s pals discontinued up unwittingly wedding sociopaths .) Now we have the internet. All the acquaintance is right there at our fingertips; you exactly need to know where to seek. And I’m not talking about Facebook and Instagram–that’s amateur hour. These are the websites and tips there is a requirement make your creeping sport to the next stage.

1. His Existing Usernames

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching a great deal of it’s the best interests of alter Google Image inquiries. Other than that, it’s that people are not very inventive and will often use the same username for literally every platform. Croak to his Facebook and find out what his URL is. Mention his Twitter and Instagram administers. Then plug all those usernames into other websites and receive what you can come up with. Reddit is the big one I have in imagination now, because Reddit is where people divulge their true-blue selves because they think they’re anonymous. Type into your address barroom “reddit.com/ u /[ the username] “, and if he made a Reddit account with that username, “youre seeing” everything he affixed. If this guy is secretly commenting on girls’ nudes on r/ gonewild, or spewing some prejudiced shit on some neo-Nazi subreddit( I don’t actually know if one dwells, I’m precisely utilizing a hypothetical example ), you find out early on and can trim your losings. On a less dramatic document, if he pictures puns are the highest form of laughter, you can also find that out from the remarks and nibble such relationships in the bud.

2. His College Website

This is a dark stage I’m not glad to acknowledge I’ve sunk to–actually, you know what, fuck it. I am proud. They don’t call me Sgt. Olivia Betchson for nothing. If you, like me, get to a item where you can no longer trust anything that comes out of a guy’s mouth and you start thinking what very base-level things he lied to you about, you are able to walk away from the relationship for your own normality decide to see if he did, in fact, alumnu college. This is where his college website be coming back. I can really only speak to the one small college that happened to have this, but I was able to look up PDF different versions of his college’s graduation brochures to verify that he did, in fact, graduate college like he said he did. You know what he do, though? Graduate the he told me he did. Or its first year after that. Or the one after that. Yes, homeboy told me he graduated in 2014, but he didn’t actually walk across the stage until two years later. AND his severity was scheduled as “pending upon completion of coursework”. So did he certainly graduate? I draw the line at announcing the registrar’s part pretending to be a capability employer, so I’ll never know for certain. What I do know for sure, though, is that this buster is a nasty liar. Do not trust him. He is a fugly slut.

3. His LinkedIn

I mean, this to be said. You need to look at a guy’s LinkedIn. Nonetheless, and I cannot stress this enough, YOU CANNOT LOOK AT HIS LINKEDIN YOURSELF. You need to enlist the help of a trusted friend. Have her look at his sketch, screenshot it, and move it to you. If you try to peep yourself while you’re logged in, he’ll get a notification that you examined his sketch, and video games is officially up because you disclosed yourself. So formerly you’ve looked at the screenshot of his LinkedIn, then if you feel so inclined, you can investigation its most recent statu on Glassdoor to find out how much he makes. Or, in my suit, you can pursuit the designation of his current posture on Glassdoor to find out if he, in fact, works in “tech sales” like he claims and not only working in an Apple store, since Glassdoor demonstrates he’s to be paid high standards retail wage. Yes, I’ve referenced this in countless sections; no, I’m clearly not over it.

4. His Old Tweets

It suffers stating that even if it’s not the most out-of-the-box solution, you can still unearth a lot of information about a person based off what they thought was funny or important back in 2012.( This is why I’ve ousted all my tweets from before 2015.) Did this buster write on Twitter that the NAACP and the KKK are analagous establishments? Better know that now. Did he tweet about his frat? Cool , now they are able to Google that school and that frat to figure out if he was in the cool frat, or the frat known for putting molly in the jungle liquid. Again, it’s better you know this shit now.

5. His Tagged Photos

So you have his Facebook and Instagram and that shit looks pretty run-of-the-mill. But did you look at his tagged photos, though? Rookie mistake. Make sure you’re meeting the photos OTHER PEOPLE are announcing, the ones he doesn’t crave you to see, or else he would have framed them up himself. Too, check out his acquaintances. Do they look like assholes? They say you are a combination of the five people you hang out with the majority, so if his friends are a knot of Sperrys-wearing, cask stand-doing, All-Lives-Matter-ing frat boys, you don’t wishes to digit that out two months in. Or like, IDK, if his love exactly appear lame, or if they are all women who are hotter than you, those are things you don’t want to wait to find out.

6. His Phone Number

I don’t necessitate like, have your friend prank call his amount. This isn’t 1998. WE HAVE RESOURCES. Formerly you get his numeral GOOGLE THAT SHIT. You can find out wherever he affixed his figure online( aka if he’s an stupid ). Like, maybe he’s involved in some business speculations or a bad text of his once became viral. Who TF knows. His address might also come up if he’s listed in any directories. Then you push that shit into Google Earth, check out his house/ accommodation, asked about who that bitch was in his bedroom … JK, I’m aware that’s not how Google Earth manipulates, and also that that may be taking circumstances a bit very far.( No assessment if you decide to go that route tho .)

7. His Outgoing Voicemail

We are rapidly approaching maximum creep tier now, so simply stay with me if you’re not swoon of centre. There’s this website your best friend told me about called SpyDialer.com, which allows you kind in any cell phone number and listen to that person’s outgoing voicemail sense WITHOUT DIALING. Now you might be thinking “Sgt. Olivia Betchson, what kind of information can I hope to gain from some dude’s voicemail? And the answer is: LOTS. You can find out if he’s a sociopath living a double life with their own families if he’s dumb enough to record a voicemail content with his significant other. Likewise, if you read my kittenfishing tale, you’d know that singer Catfishing is a very real problem that affects at least person or persons a year, and you don’t want to get thrown by a person with a Mickey Mouse voice.

8. His Criminal Record

Ah yes, we’ve lastly reached the spire of my perversion. Yes, It’s true-blue. I am not above rubbing the darkest angles of the internet to find a guy’s criminal record. To be fair, the one first time I did this, it was because he had already told me he went to jail, but not what the pique was. I feel like I had the right to know if I was dating a murderer, you know? So there’s a few easy ways to do this. You can go to CriminalCheck.com, a no-fee database of sex offenders in the U.S.–minus Nebraska, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and New Jersey. That shouldn’t be a huge administer because you shouldn’t appointment anyone from Nebraska or South Dakota as a matter of principle because no one lives there, and you should usurp anyone from New Jersey suctions( learn from my mistakes, I pray you ). However, what if he perpetrated some other non-sexual-based pique that is especially abominable? You can precisely Google his call+ his county and have a ball “re going through” each and every upshot until you find what you’re go looking for( or don’t ). If you’re inviting , no I did not find any arrest register for my chap at the time, but I DID find one for a family member of his, which was a very awkward confidential I kept to myself for the duration of our relationship. Likewise, his big-time jail-able offense? This dude spent a nighttime in the liquor tank and played it off like he was El Chapo. SMFH.

They say ignorance is bliss, but that’s absolutely no truth to the rumors with dating. There are way too many glides out there, and it’s important to do your due diligence. Now if you need me, I’ll be looking into whether or not I can obtain some medical records. A bientot.