Pretty much the truth.
I was an early adopter of the smartphone. My GF’s (at the time) dad lived in the neighborhood and would often go to the same bar we did. Totally fine. We all got along and had fun.
But, one day he snapped at me to “put that fucking phone away” because he was annoyed I fact checked him. I put the phone away, was not worth the fight.
Sounds like a Tuesday on the SDMB.
When one of my boys was in Scouts I heard the Scoutmaster admonishing a few of the kids who weren’t listening while an activity was being explained. He said;
“There are two types of people in this world. There are the first group of people, who make it their business to know what is going on, and there are the second group who have to ask the first group what to do. To be a scout you need to be in the first group.”
He was a great scout leader. Right up until he got caught sexting one of the boys. Sigh.
The usefulness of Google and other search engines has gotten much worse in the last few years. Yeah, it’s great for lots of fairly straightforward searches, but for so many searches I’ve done lately the first two pages are polluted with computer generated copies of the same one or two real pages.
Those computer generated pages often are clearly wrong, incomplete, or missing crucial pictures or something. Sometimes then it becomes a quest to find the original article (or a good enough copy), so that I can get what I want.
Other times, I know the computer generated pages aren’t the right information, so finding the original won’t help, but refining my search terms just changes the order I get the computer generated pages.
I assume the pages are full of ads that I don’t see.
When I was a Scout leader, I got frustrated with the complete lack of attention span (understandable; remember, these are middle schoolers released into the wild). So I announced a new merit badge:
the Awareness of What’s Going On Around You badge.
I had plans to get a cool patch embroidered, but in three years of wilderness camping, no kid qualified.
And hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire, cited by Richard Sharpe
And a lot of the so-called questions on FB, are actually humble brags.
Oh, I get that. My point is, the joke’s on them; they’re creating a trivial amount of work for me, while wasting a considerable amount of their own time filling out my request form over and over again, that again, I intentionally designed to be tedious and unpleasant to complete 
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Maybe add a requirement for full fingerprints and/or a criminal records check from the local police department…
I used to love creating forms like that. Especially for complaint forms or one we called the “request a refund for the hell of it”.
Did you work here?