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Hello Everyone! Today I was thinking a lot about making this post, first of all we all do it in one form or another, some more than others.
I am one of those Learners who likes to both seek for information while also actively asking for it.
In my opinion while information can be paid it is also healthy for it to be free and accessible, in fact my recent Thesis is about accessibility of information.
Anyhow, indeed I hear a lot about that lately, the whole "Google it" mentality that has been going on for years, it ended up being the new norm to just use search engines for finding specific information... if only it could be that simple,
lets face it... we do not always find what we are searching for, actually there is a lot of diluted information online in the light web (anything accessible via search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuck and so on).
In my opinion these while apparent to use they are also not healthy to recommend as sole solutions or answers to questions.

All in all we are not able to often find exactly what we need or want.
This is where many of us somewhat social folk turn to each other for information, it is the reason why many of us turn to Reddit, Discord and other gathering places like even Twitch for finding people to get a few answers.

In any case, this has happened a lot and for good reason do we get upset over such comments or responses.
Now lets look at the implications which come from such wide spread culture of "google it" responses and mentality.
First off, when we are expected to only search online something there is a lack of social communication, to give some context, imagine that in older times when the books were expensive and few had access to them, the social life and health of people were much higher in quality than it is now, despite the fact that our communication is way faster and more accessible, with information accessibility so came the less need to interact with people,
sometimes that interaction could turn into aggression...

Example:
What many may do is ask us to "Google it" and may mention it in a Polite or Passive-Aggressive way and often forgetting that the first thing people do is to search something online and then ask someone, there is such thing called social learners afterall.
Either way those (often ironical) responses are not doing any good,
first of all that is not very kind to the person who is seeking information, second of all if the person who wrote that does not have those extra seconds answering the question and instead replying with such remarks then it clearly shows the intentions to offend someone by passing on a negative load, and third of all if someone has the time to spend looking through those media why not answer it directly since they have that dedicated time... It is inefficient to be negative to other people online obviously.

That being said, all those advancements in accessibility and expectations which lead to less interactions has led us to be more prone to social starvations, even though it may not be visible at first, we are social creatures by default, the species we do most well with are typically group (pack) species such as Dogs, sheep, goats, horses and other animals.
A baby left alone cannot simply survive without social interactions, we learn to be and to need social interactions from the very first second of our lives.
Furthermore, when we interact socially online, asking about something is a great way to break the ice and start a relationship or at the very least a small interaction which can lead to any friendship or similar.
It aint hurt to ask as we know.

There is great fear when people are asked questions naturally which is shielded by the accessibility of information, when we ask for directions instead of using our apps, or when we ask for a good place to eat instead of checking tour websites or similar, that small interaction helps us mentally and socially.
Personally I always was an introvert (nowadays hybrid of both), and I find it as a great opportunity to ask something and start interacting socially with people, it helps shell-out from the comfort zone and to create a new expansion for our comfort zone.
Lets not forget that when we are asked something, in the future we may need something that the other people may have, its better to make an act of kindness and let it be than expect a sure-proof return.

So next time we get the urge to simply say "Google it" (or similar) we may want to think twice about the impact this culture has to the future of our mental health, lets not forget that every single interaction has the potential to build a bridge between people and more!

Hopefully this Post helped to rise some awareness out there not only to us but also to make us think and rethink the current situation, we are all about diving deep into a spiral of depth and growth.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful rest of the day!

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