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Somewhat related is how there is a whole generation of people that think they are entitled to finding information on a search engine, or a web indexed accessibl
by vmception 5y ago
Somewhat related is how there is a whole generation of people that think they are entitled to finding information on a search engine, or a web indexed accessible source, and if its not there then it must not exist!
I see this in discussions a lot where many times the answer is that the data doesn't exist, but thats not satisfactory to the person making the challenging.
- chiefalchemist 5y agoAnecdotally, I'm in a couple+ tech (ish) groups on FB. More and more the questions posted are obviously by passing internet search (e.g.,Google) and going right to the group. Simple shit that people simply can't be bothered to search for, and they don't even bother with the FB group search. Imho, this behaviour wastes too much of the groups' collective bandwidth. So not only has FB hoarded the infomation, but it has no incentive to fix the group experience (e.g., prompt an input for group search during the asking bit) as it keeps engagement up.
- hotpotamus 5y agoI mean, this is the state of the world currently. I doubt I'd be able to do my job without some sort of search engine. I do talk to people in my company who worked in tech before the internet and they mention going to bookstores and reading books and how weird that seems now even to they who lived through it.