Online Advice

Ever do a google (or for reason i possibly cannot grasp - yahoo) search for something you needed help figuring out?

- Doing homework?

- Fixing a computer?

- Buying a new phone?

- Talking to girls?

I'm sure you've not only searched for help in SOMETHING, but also seen ridiculous questions and articles. You've most likely even seen a lot of useful ones too. Ones you may have never thought to look up but checked up anyway because it drew you - Maybe out of curiousity, maybe out of interest, maybe out of need or even anger.

The problem however, lies in the seemingly helpful articles that could either give you bad advice or give advice that turns out to be counterproductive.

Imagine a dating tip site for example. Most dating tip websites give tips and advice on making you the "wanted" partner, making you try to exploit the nature of humanity and altruism. I don't mean this in a bad way, and i'm not in anyway trying to defame these sites or even downplay the effectiveness of the techniques either.

All I'm trying to point out are some things which most people tend to overlook that end up making things disadvantageous. For example, these articles could tell you to ignore a persons interest and advances, remain aloof and make your "interest" want or even (feel a) need to come to you.

Now imagine if two people who liked each other - a male and a female who had never approached one another, each read articles just like these aimed at their particular gender. These two would walk about showing themselves to one another, looking aloof, showing half interested googly-eyed glances, being present at the same places virtually all the time without ever trying to talk to one another and just generally forming "hard to get" for all of eternity.

All because a website told them to.

Do you see now?

Imagine the suprise of a doctor when a ten year old boy starts crying in his office telling him that he believes he's pregnant because he saw the symptoms online and they're the things he's experiencing. Eg. Vomitting, fatigue, weight gain.

Now think about the last time you bought something online, a shoe or phone maybe, only for it to turn out completely different than you had been led to believe it was.

You buy what looks like a black Louis Vuitton shoe only for it to turn out to be a black rubber shoe which starts peeling and rubbing off even as you're removing the packaging.

You'd search for a way to fix a particular bug or malfunction in your phone, only for you to make it worse or turn the phone into a paperweight. Sucks right?

Iphone 6dead.

In truth, there's also a LOT of good advice out there on the internet. The popularity of the internet is based majorly on its resourcability. You can find just about anything you want to know out here. It's an information data-ocean. I would say data bank, but y'all know how stingy banks are. They also close by 4pm and don't open on saturdays.

According to a friend of mine, Viola - in a currently trending story, there was apparently a girl who had been experiencing some abnormal symptoms resulting in dysfunctional health. She googled her symptoms on the internet and her investigation led her to conclude that she had cancer, however the doctors did not agree with her on her findings. In time it was eventually discovered that she actually DID have a rare form of cancer, but by that time........it was too late to save her life.

This is an example of when online advice CAN come in handy. It's heavily recommended that you do a lot of crosschecking and background checking when choosing to adhere to anything you see on the internet. It could be a bad sign if only one particular website is saying something thousands of others are saying the opposite of. Irregardless of this, NO-ONE is perfect. Humans are still the ones writing these articles anyways. And most of us know all too well about human imperfections...

Anyways....

In the end you really need to be careful about what you read and believe from the internet. Yknow.... "shine your eye". A lot of the advice or information given on the internet is very subjective and may not apply in every situation that you're in. I'm only trying to bring to light the double side of online activity and information gathering. Be careful to regularly and intensively cross-check whatever you're researching with other websites and other sources of information to avoid being misinformed. 

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