googleguilt
n. The sense of anxiety, sketch, voyeurism, or general sneakiness that one derives from googling an acquaintance or person-of-interest.
Can also be applied to the strange and guilty feeling one has when deliberately seeking out information on a guilty pleasure (slash fiction, cosplay, a fansite, or Sheryl Crow, for instance). Alternately, it might mean the sneaky feeling one gets when reading the myspace profile or friendster page of an acquaintance, former classmate, or coworker.
Can also be applied to the strange and guilty feeling one has when deliberately seeking out information on a guilty pleasure (slash fiction, cosplay, a fansite, or Sheryl Crow, for instance). Alternately, it might mean the sneaky feeling one gets when reading the myspace profile or friendster page of an acquaintance, former classmate, or coworker.
"I met this really cool dude in the Laundro-Rama, but I felt so sketch and skeevy when I googled him later. Major googleguilt."
googleguilt by Jenn Frank March 14, 2006
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