You’re typing on the internet. You know you can look for things, right?
Of late, social media has been wearing on me. The same idiotic relatives of friends asking stupid questions about things they never heard of, when instead, they could just type “UNKNOWN TOPIC TIME” or some such into their search engine rather than acting like Oliver, goaded into asking for more even though he didn’t want to. A large chunk of the information age at the beck and call wanting only a few keystrokes, and instead they post the question on their children’s Facebook page.
Everyone knows about my Trek connections, right? Well, there was a blurb online recently about the anniversary of the OV-101 Enterprise‘s test flight. Would-be astronaut that I am, I followed the ship’s movements and know it’s on the Intrepid in New York. Some people, I am well aware, have far less time to follow the minutiae of test vehicle movements. Real life gets in the way of some things, I understand that. What I DON’T understand, is when wondering “Hey, that first space shuttle that never went into space, whatEVER happened to that thing?” LOOK. IT. THE. FRIG. UP. Especially if you’re talking about ON THE FREAKING INTERNET.
The Underground Space Station 
One of my favorites is in movie or comic book discussions. People will write four or five paragraphs asking about a movie or story from long ago they remember and in their five paragraph description are the three or four keywords that would get them the answer to, “I remember this from years ago but don’t know the name of it to look it up. Does anyone know about… ”
On a board on Facebook, some guy was asking if anyone knew the name of a movie he remembered seeing years ago on TV but had never seen anywhere since then and was hoping to find and buy. He wrote up a long post filled with the details- not all of them 100% accurate as it turned out -he could remember about the characters, the setting, the main thrust of the film, etc.
And I looked at it and knew the answer, but I was honestly amazed he hadn’t just Googled it since he knew several key details that you could make a Google search out of and get the answer in seconds.
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Sam Elliott horror movie swamp animals
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Drop that into Google and you’ll get tons of hits and almost every single one in the first dozen or so pages on Google all say the same thing.
Frogs (1972)
A few seconds vs a ton of typing and however long he had been trying to find it.
And I find it kind of funny until I realize that the geek conversations I have with people who can’t figure out how to use Google mirror the conversations I have with people who can’t figure out how to use Google where the topics are history, politics, current events, and science.