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First day as a human? 🤨
who has hit the most home runs in the World Series? >

Just Yahoo! it, man. >

I'm going to ask jeeves! >

Infoseek it. >

Funny how even in this joke thread, no one says Bing it lol >

I've resorted to using this on people who have no real interest in looking at my proof anyway. Too many times I've done the research and provided the evidence to the person only for them to ignore it, misunderstand it, or read the first sentence and start arguing again. At that point, I just tell them to Google it themselves since I'm not going to waste more energy if they won't meet me in the middle. >

schools really done screwed up by calling it "research" when you just look up the actual research that someone else did and paraphrase it. >

What's the difference between that and say.... doing the exact same thing but out of an encyclopedia? >

The biggest difference is that the info in the encyclopedia is static and likely wrong, given enough time. Outside of basic facts that are unlikely to change. >

Right, so it's even worse than googling yet it's considered research. >

not so much anymore, but in that transition time when we all still had encyclopedias, and the internet search was becoming a common thing, the peer reviewed set of bound knowledge was more trustworthy than the random page you found that could have been written by literally anyone. >

I think it’s lazy for people to not just google it and do the work themselves when i tell them to google it. 
I understand that peoples preferences could get different results but not that different. And they may have to do a little digging or fine tune their queries but the same information I find is available for everyone.
Having said that if somebody challenges me I will often provide links to articles and they can either follow the links or not. >

I love googling stuff mid-discussion. If something sounds just slightly unbelievable in a discussion, I'll grab my phone and google it.
People sometimes get offended by that and I don't understand why. If you're so sure about your point just use the "I told you so" afterwards.
Some people will go on to a tirade about me not "trusting them". Obviously I'll trust you if it's inside your field of expertise, if I know you studied it. But if you don't study the behavior of moose or orcas like hell I'll just blindly believe that orcas are a natural preditor of mooses. >

If you ask me some stupid ass question like why are bananas yellow I will tell you to Google it. But if it's something spesific about my area of expertise, I would be happy to help. >

Stupid is a relative term. But seriously, why are they yellow? >

what would you expect them to be? green? imagine that! how absurd! >

Can you imagine if they were blue? Pure insanity >

Have you ever seen a blue waffle? >

I don’t believe I have, I’ll look it up after work.
Edit: Ayo wtf? >

That's an old school internet trick lol, right up there with lemon party >

It depends really. If you're having a debate with someone, then 'Google it' is not really a great argument, but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer. >


but sometimes people ask a question that would take 2 seconds to Google for the answer.

you mean the "just asking questions" side >

"I'm just asking easily answerable questions with no intent on listening to the answer" >

Google en passant >

Holy heck >

“Source?”
“Lists 10 sources proving my argument”
“I’m not reading all of that, oh and my point still stands” >

Either that or,
*Lists one article from someone who has no relevant experience in the field*
"Oh, so you didn't actually research this, you just posted based off of one biased article." >

I'd change this to "google is your friend" >

Or "let me google that for you". >

Precisely >

Cuz this is reddit on I'm not gonna write a explanation for something you can just google >

Based on your spelling, punctuation & grammar, it’s not shocking you’re one of the people the OP is complaining about. >

bro stfu? ppl talking informally online =/= illiteracy??? like i can type like this
Or I can be an asshole and type like you. >

If you type like that reddit, you’ve got to be prepared for ppl to @ you.  Using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole. >

using correct grammar doesn’t make you an asshole, i agree
but they literally say “because of the way you type, you’re the ignorant kind of person OP is talking about”
so all i meant was having good grammar on stupid posts online is not equivalent to someone’s intelligence nor can you base anything off the way they type. i change the way i type all the time. business emails? i’ll have good grammar 
posts on reddit? hell naw nun dat >

I don’t know, strawberriangel…I read that and can’t help but think you’re either really young, or a little uneducated.  Unless you typed it that way to make a point…? >

no i’m 23 😭 i just have always typed like i can’t spell. idk. actually writing correctly feels like i’m having a serious convo with my dad or something ahahaha 
i also have auto correct off and when i make typos i just let them fester heh >

Why would I waste my time doing homework for YOU? Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Just fucking Google it. >

“I don’t have time, what’s X?” might be the most annoying question on social media. >

Not googling something that could easily be answered in seconds is ignorant surely lol. >

That's the entire point - it's condescending and ignorant because instead of asking you should know to just google it for yourself.  
The way to get people to stop saying 'just google it' is to stop asking questions that you can google the answer to for yourself. >

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 >

Additionally, asking social media a question you could easily Google is lazy & obnoxious. >

Entitled, too? >

For sure. >

There is a practical difference in context between "I am avoiding having to actually present evidence towards my case" and "stop wasting my time".
"Google It" covers both scenarios. Either the arguing party is discussing in bad faith, or you are.
Unfortunately, this bit of human nature on either side of these problems is unlikely to be resolved with language semantics... >

But also there are people who just think "source?" is a form of argument especially read threads like this about something that isn't even important and I'm thinking like - Jesus christ just Google it yourself. It's not that big a deal lol especially if its about a celeb and well know. >

I only use Source? when someone when somebody posts something ridiculous that they obviously got from a right-wing blog. >

I say ‘google it’ to those who comment ‘who is this’ on posts of celebrities when you know they are just trying to use some odd flex about they are so unaware of current pop culture. sorry, that ended up being a very specific mini rant >

Most of the time, these arguments are about dumb, basic, rudimentary facts. These aren't about complex subjects or philosophical or political issues. Oftentimes, you tell people to google something if they're getting a very easily verifiable fact wrong. >

I play an mmo thats been out for 8 years and it always drives me crazy when a new player asks a question in server chat and people condescendingly tells them to google it. 
There's a lot of changes even to fundamental systems of the game and there's a ton of outdated guides floating around. There's also a lot of misinformation posts from who I would describe as superstitious conspiracy theorists who say stuff like if you drink this elixir at this spot it gets a secret buff or something. 
There's also people who talk about stuff they don't know. I saw someone telling a new player to level their horse to max and then reroll the horse skills. That method can cost that player hundreds of dollars to get the skills they want. The optimal method at the time is to level the horse to 1/3 or 1/2 and then start rerolling the easy to acquire skills for the horse which cuts the cost down to 15ish dollars. 
That's also an advantage of live group chats like the mmo server chat. If someone sees misinformation they can interject and correct it. I potentially saved that new player from spending 300+ dollars when they don't need to. >

Depends on context really. Also, some answers really are Google able, especially when it comes to yes or no questions. I think people just get upset because they think someone is better than them when the truth is a lot of answers really are Google able. Not to say discussions shouldn't happen but they should be framed that way imo which they are often not. >

It’s funny when I do Google it, come to a forum where the top and only post is some douche saying “Google it”. I FUCKING DID AND YOU’RE THE ONLY FUCKING RESULT HERE >

I get your point where it's kind of like saying science says but the difference is that if you ask the same question you'll likely get identical results. Differing results likely have to do with different ways a question was asked. Also if someone says google it they are literally holding you to a higher standard of proof and inviting you to pull out ur phone and prove you wrong. This is a great response when you dont believe someone. You are literally fact checking. >

Nah, ain't my job to explain to you why you're wrong with that level of detail. If something is easily confirmed via a quick Google search, I'm not doing that because you already should have. >

It has to be used correctly. You can only use it if the other person started the discussion, because that means they are the one who have the issue, not you. It's not your job to educate.
It's not ignorant, it's how the world works. Something counts as accepted until it is disproved. But the disprover is the one who has to do the first step. >

when people make claims that would require them to have specific information to make them, and then refuse to even provide a source and instead tell you to look it up, I just assume its because they know they can't. >

I was reading an article on why people will automatically respond with this depending on certain words that you use in the original question. >

I agree. They could at least give a 'let me google that for you' link. >

I put these people in the same category as "Read a book" or "wake up, sheeple". 
It's entirely reasonable to ask someone to cite their sources. If you can't, don't be surprised when your random opinion is attacked. >

Tell you’re MAGA without telling me you’re MAGA 
“SHEEPLE”
🙄 >

They were screaming it. >

These people do this because they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyone that avoids going into details or explaining themselves, but insists on arguing, is only trying to mask their ignorance and bury you with information they never read. >

I mean... Occam's Razor would say the simplest explanation is that internet arguments are fruitless endeavors, and investing time and effort into them is a waste of time...
But whatever makes you feel morally superior, friendo. >

If they were fruitless endeavors then people wouldn't get into arguments in the first place