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I am terribly interested in the occupations of my dc's incoming K class parents at tt private. I plan to google each one when we get the class lists. Is this an odd thing? or do you do this too?
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05.22.09, 12:14 PM [ Flag ]
- I do, too
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  05.22.09, 12:15 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- i think it's a little odd. why would you care what the parents do? i guess it's interesting when it comes up in conversation, but i guess i'm not very excited to find out.
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  05.22.09, 12:19 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- i would expect nothing less of the UB TT crowd
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  05.22.09, 12:19 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - What makes you think it is TT crowd, Pamela Public?
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    05.22.09, 01:06 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - did you read the post?...my child goes to private, but pamela public is almost funny
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      05.22.09, 02:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- very odd. would never occur to me to do this.
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  05.22.09, 12:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - ditto
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    05.22.09, 12:34 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - good to hear. I hope you are going to our k next year.
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      05.22.09, 12:39 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - Good lord it would def not occur to me either. Not in a million years! I guess if someone told me that a parent was a celeb and I'd never heard of them then I might take the time.
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        05.22.09, 04:20 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I do it occasionally.
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  05.22.09, 12:32 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I tend to google myself and my family a lot, out of boredom
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  05.22.09, 12:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - thats weird.. just get to know them over the course of the year
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    05.22.09, 12:40 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- nosey nelly.
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  05.22.09, 12:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- You need a hobby/job. Are you a SAHM?
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  05.22.09, 12:48 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - I wa really stunned at how many parents in our children's pre-k did this- as a rule. People were right up front about having done so; They had lots of comments and questions about work we'd done, particular people/clients we'd met/worked with and SO on. It was pretty weird and we're NOT celebs. I've definitely googled clients of my own, before taking on a job, but not parents of our kids' classmates; that seems creepy.
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    05.22.09, 12:54 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - so whats their rationale for doing so? to weed socially/financially deficient people out?
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      05.22.09, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - When I asked one parent, she said, "oh, I'm always curious about people. I google everyone I meet!" She really did. The fact that people didn't seem interested in concealing it, made an interesting point(to me) about major changes in social conduct. I really don't get it.
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        05.22.09, 01:22 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- It would never occur to me to do that and I was shocked when a friend told me she did that sort of thing. I have now noticed it seems to go with a certain kind of personality -- are you very competitive, at least somewhat status conscious, and also a little insecure? That would describe my friend and the people I know who have that kind of curiosity and Google-mania.
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  05.22.09, 01:16 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - i mean i guess i just google people that are extremely intriguing or people i have lost touch with... my thing is.. why not just ask them.. i don't get it.. i thought my life had been overtaken by my dd's school.. but i guess its not.. whew.. that's refreshing
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    05.22.09, 01:26 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I think this is very creepy.
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  05.22.09, 02:05 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- don't do this, just not interested.
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  05.22.09, 02:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- if people googled me they would think I was a doctor. I am not a doctor
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  05.22.09, 02:14 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I really hope the parents in my dc's new school don't do this. Don't you already have friends and know interesting people? Or do you think you're just about to become part of the LIfestyles of the Rich and Famous?
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  05.22.09, 02:19 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Have to say, this post reinforces my impression that most parents on the schools board are social climbers.
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  05.22.09, 02:20 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Interesting. I do not come up when I google myself, but a few other people with my name do.
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  05.22.09, 02:21 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - me too and in my case they are all quite impressive
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    05.22.09, 02:25 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I get a Canadian folk singer, doctor and microbiologist.
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      05.22.09, 02:26 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - Dr. Lightfoot?
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        05.22.09, 02:29 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        No
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        05.22.09, 02:34 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Heard some moms at a pre-school check out your home value as well! that's crazy.
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  05.22.09, 04:39 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Huh. It wouldn't occur to me to do that. Professions come up in conversation, or they don't. And either way, it just doesn't matter so much to me that I need to google them.
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  05.22.09, 04:46 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - Odd would be a generous way to put it; No, I don't also do this.
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    05.22.09, 04:49 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I would feel weird talking to them--like I knew too much about them. I'd rather just let things reveal themselves...or not.
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  05.25.09, 12:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Last September I Googled all the parents in my dc's new K class. I never thought for a moment that everyone else didn't do it too. I guess I am a lot weirder than I thought I was.
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  05.25.09, 01:22 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - That reminds me of the girls I went to college with in the South. "Hi, nice to meet you, what does you're daddy do?" I guess it is just more covert now. We are in a lucrative business that everyone is very interested in, if you google me and my husband our wonderful lives come up. Why else would Linkedin be so popular?
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    05.25.09, 02:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Seems like a very douchey thing to do. I can see researching a potential employer or a new client or doing a background check on a potential nanny, but looking for dirt, because that's really what's this is about, not about simply finding out occupations, is nonsense.
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I am terribly interested in the occupations of my dc's incoming K class parents at tt private. I plan to google each one when we get the class lists. Is this an odd thing? or do you do this too?

I do, too

i think it's a little odd. why would you care what the parents do? i guess it's interesting when it comes up in conversation, but i guess i'm not very excited to find out.

i would expect nothing less of the UB TT crowd

What makes you think it is TT crowd, Pamela Public?

did you read the post?...my child goes to private, but pamela public is almost funny

very odd. would never occur to me to do this.

ditto

good to hear. I hope you are going to our k next year.

Good lord it would def not occur to me either. Not in a million years! I guess if someone told me that a parent was a celeb and I'd never heard of them then I might take the time.

I do it occasionally.

I tend to google myself and my family a lot, out of boredom

thats weird.. just get to know them over the course of the year

nosey nelly.

You need a hobby/job. Are you a SAHM?

so whats their rationale for doing so? to weed socially/financially deficient people out?

When I asked one parent, she said, "oh, I'm always curious about people. I google everyone I meet!" She really did. The fact that people didn't seem interested in concealing it, made an interesting point(to me) about major changes in social conduct. I really don't get it.

i mean i guess i just google people that are extremely intriguing or people i have lost touch with... my thing is.. why not just ask them.. i don't get it.. i thought my life had been overtaken by my dd's school.. but i guess its not.. whew.. that's refreshing

I think this is very creepy.

don't do this, just not interested.

if people googled me they would think I was a doctor. I am not a doctor

I really hope the parents in my dc's new school don't do this. Don't you already have friends and know interesting people? Or do you think you're just about to become part of the LIfestyles of the Rich and Famous?

Have to say, this post reinforces my impression that most parents on the schools board are social climbers.

Interesting. I do not come up when I google myself, but a few other people with my name do.

me too and in my case they are all quite impressive

I get a Canadian folk singer, doctor and microbiologist.

Dr. Lightfoot?

No

Heard some moms at a pre-school check out your home value as well! that's crazy.

Huh. It wouldn't occur to me to do that. Professions come up in conversation, or they don't. And either way, it just doesn't matter so much to me that I need to google them.

Odd would be a generous way to put it; No, I don't also do this.

I would feel weird talking to them--like I knew too much about them. I'd rather just let things reveal themselves...or not.

Last September I Googled all the parents in my dc's new K class. I never thought for a moment that everyone else didn't do it too. I guess I am a lot weirder than I thought I was.

Seems like a very douchey thing to do. I can see researching a potential employer or a new client or doing a background check on a potential nanny, but looking for dirt, because that's really what's this is about, not about simply finding out occupations, is nonsense.

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