How hard is it to use the Internet to find out things?

Con Logue

Are people nowadays so incurious or stupid that they do not know how to use timetables, Google Maps or even the search function, or is there a whole generation who can only learn things anecdotally?

Logically therefore there must be a lot of people out there with a really warped sense of sex-ed, for example, if they were only able to find out things through others in an informal way.

summerskin

Why don't you google it?

Gone Drinking

Most of those posts in the Kildare forum are usually foreign HP or Intel workers, trying to plan their commute before they arrive and start working. Or when they're looking for housing around and want to know what the commute from certain areas will be like.

Sure they could google, but its not as easy if you're not from the area/country I suppose.

aN.Droid

If everyone used a search engine then there would be no people asking questions for said engines of search to index therefore making the internet implode on itself and causing world war 5. A war so heinous it skips over two whole wars.

As southpark puts it. The world needs clods and gods.

Gweedling

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+hard+is+it+to+use+the+Internet+to+find+out+things%3F

BBDBB

I wish I could "google" for my opinion on world politics

then I wouldnt have to think about the really big issues facing our society and planet

Gweedling

Beautifully, the first link when you google it is This thread. Googling things for information will usually bring up board forums where people have asked the same question before.

krudler

Stuff that's pretty specific or you're looking for local first hand experience then yeah boards is great for that, but random things you can easily find the answers to? google, you're not the first person to ask the same question.
It staggers me how many people will ring a company for absolutely basic info on something you can find in a few seconds on google, especially people who have smartphones, you have the entire internet in the palm of your hand and you'll ring and wait on hold to be told something you can find out yourself? pfff.

iDave

People doing the same thing on their Facebook status really annoys me. Always seeing this from lads 'What time/channel is the Champions League on?'.
You would think if they have an internet connection to get on FB they would be able to google it!

iDave

iDave wrote: »

People doing the same thing on their Facebook status really annoys me. Always seeing this from lads 'What time/channel is the Champions League on?'.
You would think if they have an internet connection to get on FB they would be able to google it!

Or the always annoying "What time to the shop open at?" FFS takes me 15 seconds on google to find out. It would take longer to put up a status on Facebook.

Cee-Jay-Cee

So fcuking what! Most threads in here are miserable bastards crying about insignificant silly little things.

krudler

Deleted User wrote: »

Or the always annoying "What time to the shop open at?" FFS takes me 15 seconds on google to find out. It would take longer to put up a status on Facebook.

There's a cinema I go to and you always see people asking "what time is blah on on sunday?" ffs its on their site! why would you post a question and wait for a repsonse when you're ON THE INTERNET and can check it in seconds on the companies own site?

wilkie2006

Gweedling wrote: »

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+hard+is+it+to+use+the+Internet+to+find+out+things%3F

This... is... what?

How did that happen?!

It's like being in 'Taxi Driver', when you realise that the end is really the beginning....

hatrickpatrick

This is Ireland. Irish service websites are as appallingly laid out as Irish road signs and directions. :mad:

Trust me, trying to find out how to get from A to B by using the Dublin Bus or Irish Rail website is absolute hell, I rarely take the LUAS or Bus Eireann but I can't imagine it could possibly be any better.

IM0

thinly veiled "I can use the net" replies

wonderfulname

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

This is Ireland. Irish service websites are as appallingly laid out as Irish road signs and directions. :mad:

Trust me, trying to find out how to get from A to B by using the Dublin Bus or Irish Rail website is absolute hell, I rarely take the LUAS or Bus Eireann but I can't imagine it could possibly be any better.

Bus Eireann is great, they have the physical timetables online in pdf format.

artanevilla

About 7, to answer the question in the title.

kiffer

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

This is Ireland. Irish service websites are as appallingly laid out as Irish road signs and directions. :mad:

Trust me, trying to find out how to get from A to B by using the Dublin Bus or Irish Rail website is absolute hell, I rarely take the LUAS or Bus Eireann but I can't imagine it could possibly be any better.

Here's a fun one for you... try to find out how far a stage is... Dublin bus will tell you that a journey of so many stages will cost you so much money but not how far a stage is or how many there are between any two stops.

rubadub

Con Logue wrote: »

Are people nowadays so incurious or stupid that they do not know how to use timetables, Google Maps or even the search function, or is there a whole generation who can only learn things anecdotally?

Timetables might only show overcautious time estimates. I wanted to get 2 buses and saw the second allegedly took 80mins, then saw the first bus I usually get took 70, when I know its ~50mins, so I know know the other is probably overestimated too.

You can also get tips from locals. A guy in another forum was trying to get to a park near me, and had no idea that the luas was close to it, and that you could walk through sort of wooded area to get there, this might not appear on suggested routes (even walking routes). I didn't even know myself until recently enough.

Others might have tips like using 2 buses and using those "transfer 90" type tickets where you only pay 1 fare. Or people saying "do not get off at the recommended stop, get off earlier and walk as its faster" etc.

I remember a foreign lad in work cycling some crazy route to work since his GPS showed it was the shortest. It was technically the shortest distance but took far longer than normal.

Con Logue

rubadub wrote: »

Timetables might only show overcautious time estimates. I wanted to get 2 buses and saw the second allegedly took 80mins, then saw the first bus I usually get took 70, when I know its ~50mins, so I know know the other is probably overestimated too.

You can also get tips from locals. A guy in another forum was trying to get to a park near me, and had no idea that the luas was close to it, and that you could walk through sort of wooded area to get there, this might not appear on suggested routes (even walking routes). I didn't even know myself until recently enough.

Others might have tips like using 2 buses and using those "transfer 90" type tickets where you only pay 1 fare. Or people saying "do not get off at the recommended stop, get off earlier and walk as its faster" etc.

I remember a foreign lad in work cycling some crazy route to work since his GPS showed it was the shortest. It was technically the shortest distance but took far longer than normal.

Maps. Google Maps in particular. And I never had to be told about alternative routes, always found out for myself.

Perhaps some think they will find themselves accidentally walking through a wormhole into a parallel universe, or something if they don't hear it from someone else. Initiative=Zero

SparkySpitfire

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+do+people+ask+stupid+questions%3F

And yes, I did just make one of those threads on that board, get over it, and find better things to anger you.

April O Neill

Con Logue wrote: »

Maps. Google Maps in particular.

It doesn't always have the shortest routes, the local shortcuts.

Anyway, I'll let you get back to smelling your own farts.

Con Logue

April O Neill wrote: »

It doesn't always have the shortest routes, the local shortcuts.

Anyway, I'll let you get back to smelling your own farts.

Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtJrMtGmZFc

Con Logue

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+do+people+ask+stupid+questions%3F

And yes, I did just make one of those threads on that board, get over it, and find better things to anger you.

Anger? No bemusement at incurious people who can't do their own research and depend on others to do it for them.

April O Neill

Con Logue wrote: »

Anger? No bemusement at incurious people who can't do their own research and depend on others to do it for them.

Is finding out local knowledge not research? Not everything is on the internet.

Con Logue

April O Neill wrote: »

Is finding out local knowledge not research? Not everything is on the internet.

No. A town, suburb or a timetable objectively exist. The existence of a road isn't a matter of opinion.

We wouldn't be too happy if other forums had threads giving out about our posters, so we're not going to allow it here.