@Xynestesia You've made your point very eloquently, thank you.

I am getting sick of this topic already and this will be my last comment.

I just want to make it clear that I personally, as a therapist, never googled clients for a very simple reason that might seem "shocking" to some people. I never googled clients because I never cared enough about their personal lives to google them. Simple as that. I didn't think whether my online search would "benefit" them or not. I didn't google them not out of "respect" for their choice of how much they want to tell me in sessions. I didn't google them because for me they belonged to the area of my work, not my life. I always did my best to separate my work from my personal life and, once the work day was over and I got out of the building where I practiced, I did everything I could to get all my clients and their stories out of my head. The last thing I wanted is to continue to think about them after my business hours, so searching them online didn't even cross my mind. I wasn't interested in doing it because I cared about my emotional health and nothing else. Yeah.. pretty selfish, I know..

That said, I reserve the right to search anyone online, client or not, whenever I want because I don't believe this activity to be unethical or immoral. That's all from me on this topic.