Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The "just google it" mantra has probably held back quite a lot of interesting conversations and debate (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jeremoose@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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I've always been a "lurker" on all platforms and communities because when I do have a question or would like to contribute my first thought has become:

Actually, let me google it first

In which case I'll usually have some answer. Usually it isn't a complete answer but enough for me to not want to share my question anymore.

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[–] Whaler_Shaver@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's kind if strange behaviour to be on a discussion board and only contribute by killing the discussions by pointing to Google.

I get that people get annoyed by low effort posts and people's general inabilty to find information independently. But there are better ways...

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Especially since that discussion might be found later via Google as well. It's more helpful to say that you looked it up via a specific search and give a couple of the results. That way it's not a dead end and the person hopefully learns how to help themselves in the future by example.