iPhones Google Killing Conversation

[joggerjayne]

Are the iPhone and Google killing good conversation.

Things that could have resulted in a long and jolly debate ... now, someone says "hang on, I've just Googled it".

Example ... (cos it happened last week) ...

You're in a bar. You ask for a couple of B52s. The barmaid's not sure how to make one. You tell her. The people next to you say No, that's not how you make a B52.

So you order a round using their formula.

Before you know it, there are about twenty of you, trying B52 after B52. By the end of the night, you're all trolleyed, and you've made a few new friends.

BUT ...

If anyone had had their iPhone, they have just Googled "classic B52 recipe" ... the end.

Same on here, really. Anything that could form the basis of a chat ... someone just Googles it.

I've forgotten why I started this thread now.

Maybe someone could Google it for me.

[Ratty2E]

I can't agree because there is nothing worse than wracking your brain for something you know you knew once upon a time. I love being able to Google stuff it stops me getting annoyed and giving myself a headache.

[joggerjayne]

(Googles "headache remedies")

[Slapshot]

You could be onto something




Sent from my iPhone

[joggerjayne]

he he

[hc4361]

A modern manners dilemma.
A friend of yours is a bit of a know it all, and will argue black is blue until he is red in the face.
When you are both with a group of people and he states a 'fact' do you google it on your smartphone to prove he is wrong and humiliate him, or just humour him?

[Slapshot]

Absolutely....especially if it's the idiot boy....(25 yo smug know it all son)

[joggerjayne]

You should never put people down in public.

Not even if they are smart arses.

[emmie]

i find that all mobiles, or what passes for them can kill a conversation, debate stone dead. I gave a dinner party for few close family, o/h and friends, and one friend had the flaming cheek to sit through the entire evening taking one phone call after the other. I had spent an inordinate amount of time and money on this special occasion and to have it spoilt made my blood boil.

[whiskeryron]

It's ok for you jj, when you get to my age to Google for information, half the time I can't remember the word I want to Google.

W Ron.

[hc4361]

em10 - that is just plain rude.