I placed a personal ad on Craig’s List last week as I do from time to time. My personal ads tend to be on the geeky side and I mention Googling people before the date happens.

Someone took me up on it out of the gate. He gave me his full name and told me to Google away. I did. I found him on Twitter and we ended up direct messaging each other through the service. Eventually we moved from asynchronous communication to IM, which worked well until his router failed. Apparently, it’s a common problem for men.