Something you don’t seem to get is that I don’t take requests for work lightly. Tech support is actual work I’ve been paid to do. Ninety percent of it was basically running a help desk—handing out links because most people are too lazy to search for themselves, so they dump the job on others, even if it takes a whole day to get a response.
Now, you might ask, “Why just send links instead of answering the question?” Because the article is already written. It only takes seconds to share that link, but re-explaining everything would take way longer. Even if I’m the expert, I use Google to find the right link to validate and verify instead of writing paragraphs.
Everyone can solve these problems through search. It literally takes seconds. Whether you like Google or not, Google is usually more accurate and efficient than social media threads.
So no, I’m not calling all content I don’t like “spam.” But questions that could be answered instantly by a quick search, yet are offloaded to others, are a drain on time and effort—that’s the real issue.
