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[QueenDanceALot]

I work with someone who is always asking me this easy stuff she could find herself on a Google search, like if there's a particular store in a particular city.

I told her one day that I wasn't her Google Monkey.

I think she stopped speaking to me for a week.

[beckyb1012]

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@QueenDanceALot wrote:

I work with someone who is always asking me this easy stuff she could find herself on a Google search, like if there's a particular store in a particular city.

I told her one day that I wasn't her Google Monkey.

I think she stopped speaking to me for a week.

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OMG!!  There is not a font size large enough for LOL to describe how I reacted to "Google Monkey"  I just hope no one down the hall from my office heard me.  The nets will be sent.  I will have to remember that one.

[Moonchilde]

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@QueenDanceALot wrote:

I work with someone who is always asking me this easy stuff she could find herself on a Google search, like if there's a particular store in a particular city.

I told her one day that I wasn't her Google Monkey.

I think she stopped speaking to me for a week.

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There are quite a few posters to these forums who seem to expect everyone else to be their Google Monkey in all things - and someone always will be - but it won't be me.

[Jacie]

I have an issue with people on the boards who search for something and present it as a "fact" and then defend it to their board death!

I am not on the boards to glean "facts", it's a forum within a shopping channel! Too routinely some folks present the internet carp and expect everyone else to swallow it or chide those who do not.

Most often I am seeking opinions on a product or someone's life experience on an issue. I am quite capable of discovering "facts" myself.

[bri20]

Google is usually my starting off point.

I never click on links from here.  I never take what people post here in their link to be gospel either.

[GATORGIRL]

[ValuSkr]

I would have asked what "Baidu" was, but googled it instead.

I think people sometimes ask a question just as a conversation-starter.  Of course they know they could have looked it up online.  Reminding them that "google is your friend" isn't much fun.

[namaste000]

When I became a grandmother (a little over a year ago), I saved this quote.

Most new parents now google everything that comes up, as they should!

Way better than looking at Dr Spock's baby book.

[beckyb1012]

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@namaste000 wrote:

When I became a grandmother (a little over a year ago), I saved this quote.

Most new parents now google everything that comes up, as they should!

Way better than looking at Dr Spock's baby book.

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I became one in Aug. 2014 and just this summer my son asked me "Mom how in the world did you raise me with out a cell phone, computer or even cable since we lived out in the country?  I thought finally he appreciates the hard work I did even if it was only daily life without electronics.