Search history

Could it be that we are often more honest with “Google’s” search feature than we are with those who are closest to us, be they spouses, parents, children, family or friends?  The unfortunate reality is that many, many people ask questions to or seek information from “Google” that they would never proposition to family or friends.  Kids today often ‘learn’ about many things that previous generations would have had to learn from their parents (or potentially from their friends if their parents were falling down on the job), including but not limited to the ‘birds and the bees’ and may start as innocently as an eight year-old doing a science report on different types of big cats, such as “cougars”.  Is someone trying to get pregnant (or not)?  They may find themselves ‘Googling’ methods to increase (or decrease) their chances.  Is someone contemplating a divorce?  Their search history may include lawyers of that variety, apartments in the area where they plan to relocate, and multiple views of their potential future lover’s social media page.  More benign proclivities can surmised from search histories as well.  Are you into cooking?  You may have viewed tons of ‘pinteresting’ recipes recently.  Are you into hunting, fishing, and camping?  Your “ebay” searches and purchases will likely reveal this as well.   No one “knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them…” (1 Cor 2:11) but their search history can give others a pretty good idea of what they are thinking and what they intend to do in the near future.  “For as he thinks within himself, so he is…” (Prov. 23:7).  It may be a good exercise in self-examination to view one’s own recent search history.  Just be careful about telling yourself why you visited certain web pages as the person we lie to most often is ourselves.  “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure”  (Jer. 17:9)