Maybe to YOU. There’s a reason I come to Lemmy, and formerly reddit, and ask questions that I COULD just google. But I ask people. Because people aren’t robots. Family Fued is a tv show based around the idea that you can ask 100 people the same question, and get different answers.
If I ask google the same question 100 times, it loads the same info everytime.
Yup. I’ve tried in the past to engage with people at times by asking who someone is or what something is in the comments and I’m always met with responses telling me to just google it. And they’re usually not nice at all.
Fuck me for wanting to have a fan of something info-dump the particulars of it and why they like it.
Social networking is such a lonely thing.
You mean a record of collective experience painting a bigger picture about a subject may be more valued than a single anecdotal account?
Ask a white middle class boomer how was growing up in the American 50s and he might say it was a great time based on his experience… a black person might give a different perspective…I believe more often than not a quick Google search may provide more information than someone you are talking to. I’d take a Google search over 99% of what any of my relatives have to say about any subject :P
Ask Google what sex feels like, how to foster a strong platonic relationship, how to positively interact with a profoundly intellectually disabled person, how exactly should a roux smell when its ready to use, ask it what you should do for a living. I’m in no way saying it’s not an incredibly useful tool. I’m thinking its over valued in some cases because it confirms internally held biases without the user actually interacting with the context of their questions.
