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Has social media made people lazy? Is Googling a lost art?

  • 15-02-2015 4:31pm
    #1
    Magenta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭


    Has social media made people lazy?
    I see it time and time again on Facebook, Twitter, and online forums. People asking the most basic questions that they could have answered in 5 seconds if they had looked it up themselves.
    "What time is shop X open til?"
    "Anyone know where I can buy [insert massive brand name]" in Dublin?

    And my all time pet peeve, when people are discussing a certain celebrity and someone responds "Who?".

    Have people just got really lazy?


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  • #2
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Y.


  • #3
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    TLDR.


  • #4
    ifritzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭ifritzero


    duz ne1 no d ansur 2 dis?


  • #5
    RedemptionZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭RedemptionZ


    Googling is barely 10 years old! At least wait a few decades before you start saying "back in my day..."


  • #6
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    RedemptionZ wrote: »
    Googling is barely 10 years old! At least wait a few decades before you start saying "back in my day..."

    Well back in my day we searched with Netscape and chatted via oceanfree.net


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  • #7
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Magenta wrote: »
    Has social media made people lazy?
    I see it time and time again on Facebook, Twitter, and online forums. People asking the most basic questions that they could have answered in 5 seconds if they had looked it up themselves.
    "What time is shop X open til?"
    "Anyone know where I can buy [insert massive brand name]" in Dublin?

    And my all time pet peeve, when people are discussing a certain celebrity and someone responds "Who?".

    Have people just got really lazy?

    I hate the "who" nonsense. Don't comment on people you don't know perhaps.


  • #8
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Well back in my day we searched with Netscape and chatted via oceanfree.net

    Have to use the phone, will ya disconnect!!! :mad:


  • #9
    Frynge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    RedemptionZ wrote: »
    Googling is barely 10 years old! At least wait a few decades before you start saying "back in my day..."

    Is google not nearly 20 years old now?

    See what I did there.


  • #10
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    I hate the "who" nonsense. Don't comment on people you don't know perhaps.
    why?


  • #11
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    why?

    Doesn't add much to the discussion. There's a lot of minor celebs I know nothing about and yet precisely because I don't know them I don't comment on them.


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  • #12
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I'd say a lot of the time it's people who are bored and trying to start a conversation. Kind of like when an old man asks you the time at a bus station and you're like "there's a giant clock on the wall right there" and then he starts into "hmm. How do you think they got that up there, some job I'd say. Do you like clocks, where are you heading to anyway, do you have a boyfriend?".

    Or it's people who want people to know what they're buying/how much they're spending.

    The celebrity thing is just twats who aren't contented with just a general disdain for popular culture, oh no. They need people to know how sophisticated they are.


  • #13
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    Doesn't add much to the discussion. There's a lot of minor celebs I know nothing about and yet precisely because I don't know them I don't comment on them.
    what?


  • #14
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Magenta wrote: »
    Has social media made people lazy?
    I see it time and time again on Facebook, Twitter, and online forums. People asking the most basic questions that they could have answered in 5 seconds if they had looked it up themselves.
    "What time is shop X open til?"
    "Anyone know where I can buy [insert massive brand name]" in Dublin?

    And my all time pet peeve, when people are discussing a certain celebrity and someone responds "Who?".

    Have people just got really lazy?

    More lazy and stupid if you ask me.
    I often wonder about this myself. In the time it would have taken to compose the question, they would have had an answer from a search engine.
    My favourite one is the type of poster who asks how much their car insurance will be, as if anyone here can answer that question for them.


  • #15
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Anton Dead Respirator wrote: »
    "hmm. How do you think they got that up there, some job I'd say. Do you like clocks, where are you heading to anyway, do you have a boyfriend?"


    That's some truly wonderful writing right there.

    I'll be using that line meself when I'm an old man.


  • #16
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    Magenta wrote: »
    Has social media made people lazy?
    I see it time and time again on Facebook, Twitter, and online forums. People asking the most basic questions that they could have answered in 5 seconds if they had looked it up themselves.
    "What time is shop X open til?"
    "Anyone know where I can buy [insert massive brand name]" in Dublin?

    And my all time pet peeve, when people are discussing a certain celebrity and someone responds "Who?".

    Have people just got really lazy?
    This thread was only done recently - are you too lazy to use the search function? :pac:

    Seriously though, yeh, it looks like laziness and attention-seeking. Possibly because of thinking it's the only way to find out information - but nah, nobody could be that thick.
    Or, more benignly, perhaps just an attempt at starting a conversation.

    The "Who?" thing, even though they can be googled, sometimes genuinely means "Who the hell are you talking about?" when there's chat about someone only vaguely known as if everyone knows who they are.
    It's annoying all right though when people say it in relation to fecking Kanye West or someone.


  • #17
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    A lot of people who use FB don't realise they're on the internet.


  • #18
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    The quickest way to get information online is to post something that is wrong as fact. People will soon correct you.



    I think its called Godwins Law.


  • #19
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    The quickest way to get information online is to post something that is wrong as fact. People will soon correct you.



    I think its called Godwins Law.

    Yes. That's right. **grits teeth**


  • #20
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    This thread was only done recently - are you too lazy to use the search function? :pac:

    Seriously though, yeh, it looks like laziness and attention-seeking. Possibly because of thinking it's the only way to find out information - but nah, nobody could be that thick.
    Or, more benignly, perhaps just an attempt at starting a conversation.

    The "Who?" thing, even though they can be googled, sometimes genuinely means "Who the hell are you talking about?" when there's chat about someone only vaguely known as if everyone knows who they are.
    It's annoying all right though when people say it in relation to fecking Kanye West or someone.

    But why click on the link. I couldn't name an actor in Eastenders because I don't watch it. If a link is

    <eastenders actor> does <banal thing>

    I won't be in there. Because I genuinely don't know who they are. Saying "Who" would be both rude and a waste of time.


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