If you’re sending me an IM, email, tweet, Facebook message or a text from your smart phone, evidence shows that you have access to the Internet. You know what else is on the Internet? GOOGLE! It’s this wonderful thing called a search engine. You can type in a question, any question in the world and it will give you an answer. Can you believe that? Isn’t it amazing what technology can do nowadays? Oh, wait. You’ve heard of Google? Then why did you just IM me asking who sings the “Oh sometimes I get a good feeling” song? It’s Flo Rida and you know how I know that? I just Googled it!
Google is awesome. I love Google. I use Google for just about everything. I use Google Mail, Google Chat, Google Images, Google Maps, Google Reader, Google Voice and even YouTube, which is now owned by Google. Google is an amazing thing that we all have access to. So, why are you so afraid to use it? It’s free! Did you not realize it was free? Oh, you did. Well it’s super fast too. It only takes seconds to find out when the Oscars air or how to spell quinoa. I know, because I just Googled both of those things and it literally took me three seconds. You know it’s unlimited, right? No one is going to cut you off for Googling too much. Oh, you knew that too. Then seriously what’s the holdup?
When you ask me questions that you can easily find answers to via Google I find it insulting. Insulting to both my time and your intelligence. By asking me to do your Googling you are saying either that your time is more valuable than mine or that you are too incompetent to type your question into a Google search bar. Most of the time it takes you longer to ask the question than it would to look it up yourself, which is just silly. It’s even worse when it comes in the form of a Tweet or Facebook Status. Do you realize how many people you are broadcasting this question to? If you’re watching the Grammy’s and don’t know who Paul McCartney is, look it up! Don’t tweet about it. He’s a Beatle and you’re lazy.
I am done answering your ridiculous questions. I am NOT your Google. Look it up, here’s the link www.google.com!
Feature image via hetemeel.com
Google now comes with Documents to make our working life easier which I feels it is so helpful and handy.
I love these comments! Discouraging social interactions? Really? Is telling my husband to look for his belt before asking me where he left it discouraging social interaction? Text me, call me, e-mail me, come on over, but do it to actually interact with me, not just to ask me answers to things you are obviously going to use in conversation with someone else!
And if you don’t know who Paul McCartney is, you probably shouldn’t bother watching the Grammy’s, let alone announcing to the world that you are either a feral child or live under a rock;)
Not going to argue, just going to clarify. If you read the first sentence I am not referring to a world where everyone sits at computers and googles all day. I am referring specifically to when people are TYPING their questions into some social platform asking others to find the answer instead of just typing them directly into Google to find the answers themselves.
I am also not talking about OPINIONs at all. I love when people ask me my opinion or how my day is going or if I think they should wear heels or flats. These are, to me, meaningful social interactions. I get frustrated when those meaningful social interactions are interrupted by a question that is essentially saying “hey can you look this up for me.”
Also, come after me all you wish, I am an adult and can handle it. However, when you post uninformed attacks on the posting of a 13-year-old girl who is questioning why bullying is tolerated in her middle school you need to take a look at your life. HelloGiggles is a place of encouragement and to in any way discourage a young girl from expressing her, in my opinion, extremely mature opinions is just wrong.
I’m with you 100% depending on the degree of the query, basic facts for sure, but some people have better research skills than others. My reaction is more of disbelief, like “I can’t believe they asked that question to so many people they “know”, do they know how dumb they look?” But yeah, I’m with ya. P.S. this article and conversation has inspired me to begin constantly asking really dumb questions to my Facebook. My friends will thank you.
LLol everyone needs to chill. I found this to be quite humorous!
I agree with your stance but your delivery makes you seem like an insufferable ahole and makes me wonder why anyone asks your opinion about anything at all.
Haha! I have a friend who’s so guilty of this- he asks random questions through his Facebook status all the time, and every time I think to myself, “Why didn’t you just type this into Google?”
When my sister is wondering something, I just say to her “Google it!”
No! Don’t settle down! This is awesome.
Id like to thank you for stealing the words out of my mouth.
When acting like a personal google, I get the response of ‘how do you know all this stuff?’
I don’t know it all, but I do know when to utilize a simple magical tool like google.
Also facebook isn’t your google… Stop posting basic questions. The internet is a simple resource & that answer/tip/trick/ song your asking your entire friend list about? Yeah it can easily be found if you had taken the time to search out your own info vs waiting for it to be spoon fed to you. And don’t you get embarrassed asking that junk to 500 ‘so called friends’ ?!
Funny that you ramble on about how dumb people are for not using google all the while displaying your immense ignorance. Humans, in case you didn’t know, are social animals. Sure you can go google “social animal” but why not ask a friend, a colleague, or someone at the bus stop. In a society that desperately needs one another and togetherness, here you are telling everyone just stay at your computer, don’t bother me. If you really need someone from facebook to tell you the reason why people ask questions they can google there really is not much help for you and you must not have many friends with your crabby attitude. Lighten up.
You lighten up. She’s not saying “Don’t talk to me! I don’t want to have to interact with icky human beings”. She didn’t say “If you’re at a bus stop don’t bother asking a question of your fellow man.” What she’s saying is to have a little self-reliance. If you’re at a computer, use the tools given to you like a big boy or girl. Curiosity and interaction is encouraged. Tweeting “Who the F is Paul McCartney” is just aggressively ignorant.
No need to be rude about it. Sure, we’re social animals, but we also have these things called brains. They should probably tell us that it takes more time and energy to post “Hey, does anyone know what time the Superbowl starts” on our facebook than to just Google it.
Settle down.
I think maybe you need to soften your stance a little bit. I think you are discouraging old-fashioned human interaction which is already under heavy attack. I used to love getting calls from friends asking “who sings song X” to settle a bet. I was their “Google”… Not anymore. It’s not a bad thing that Google at our fingertips has rendered the insufferable knowitall obsolete, but it may be making us stupider: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1499/google-does-it-make-us-stupid-experts-stakeholders-mostly-say-no
Hahaha, I love this.
Let Me Google That For You is great for moments like those: http://lmgtfy.com/