r/analogcommunity is full of them… Like do people not do the minimal amount of research anymore, especially on something they want to call their hobby?
UGh for real. All of the “Which camera should I buy for $$$” is just like…there are whole websites devoted to buying guides for your insanely tiny budget. Or the other day someone asked for help with his homework identifying certain concepts in his photos and I’m like…did you try looking up each individual concept on google so that you could apply it to these photos? that’s literally the task your teacher was trying to teach you…It kills me. It’s so hard not to be a dick on the internet about stuff like that.
Preach! I have to imagine many of these folks must be much older and just never figured out how to google. they’re used to calling their kids or something for help on anything. at least that what it feels like.
Or so young that they never had to learn anything other than natural language queries, perhaps. “Into to X” or “basics of X” vs “How do I take photos of a kids baseball game in the evening when the skies are cloudy?”
Was recently at a social media training - part of my work - where they claimed that young people no longer use Google to find information, they use Tik Tok. Not sure if true, but if so, might explain some of it.
I learned of help vampires recently, but I think it’s more likely Google being blocked for people (not really).
Perhaps nobody ever teaching them to efficiently search the web or even YouTube, or trying to make their questions too specific to the point that they’re not searchable. Or the sample/reporting(?) bias we never see the questions from people who are able to find answers without posting, and only see the ones who seem to use asking reddit as plan A. Another major one is anything that stems from a class. Ask the instructor. Ask other students.
The number of easy-to-Google questions that get posted on r/AskPhotography makes me want to scream.
r/analogcommunity is full of them… Like do people not do the minimal amount of research anymore, especially on something they want to call their hobby?
UGh for real. All of the “Which camera should I buy for $$$” is just like…there are whole websites devoted to buying guides for your insanely tiny budget. Or the other day someone asked for help with his homework identifying certain concepts in his photos and I’m like…did you try looking up each individual concept on google so that you could apply it to these photos? that’s literally the task your teacher was trying to teach you…It kills me. It’s so hard not to be a dick on the internet about stuff like that.
“what do the rings on my lens do?”
“how come I can’t use my brand X lens on my brand y camera? I got a good deal on it?”
"how do I get the film out?
“what focal length should I start out with?”
“how come all my pictures are dark?” (didn’t even bother to understand exposure)
Like, come on, youtube has hundreds of hours of videos to help get you started - there’s 20+ years of forum posts
Preach! I have to imagine many of these folks must be much older and just never figured out how to google. they’re used to calling their kids or something for help on anything. at least that what it feels like.
Or so young that they never had to learn anything other than natural language queries, perhaps. “Into to X” or “basics of X” vs “How do I take photos of a kids baseball game in the evening when the skies are cloudy?”
Was recently at a social media training - part of my work - where they claimed that young people no longer use Google to find information, they use Tik Tok. Not sure if true, but if so, might explain some of it.
I think it’s correct based in what I’ve seen also
[oh no song]
I learned of help vampires recently, but I think it’s more likely Google being blocked for people (not really).
Perhaps nobody ever teaching them to efficiently search the web or even YouTube, or trying to make their questions too specific to the point that they’re not searchable. Or the sample/reporting(?) bias we never see the questions from people who are able to find answers without posting, and only see the ones who seem to use asking reddit as plan A. Another major one is anything that stems from a class. Ask the instructor. Ask other students.
These are really excellent points to consider when I want to use the “I googled it for you” website. Thanks