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Maybe they just want to interact with you? Believe it or not, people ask each other questions, even things they could easily look up online because they want your take and opinion and crucially they want to talk to you. But given your response, God knows why.
I actually get mildly irritated when people do that. If we’re just chatting and I start wondering aloud about some trivial event or person, and the other person immediately pulls out their phone to Google it, I find it a bit annoying. It’s almost never anything that important. Let’s at least dig into our memories for a bit and bounce around guesses before looking it up. I’m just chatting - no need to “call a friend” to find out which movie had Denzel Washington in it.
This is my bf. I try to make conversation, and he silently pulls up Wikipedia on his phone so he can fact-check whatever I say.
I agree here. Also we all know people put fud on the internet. lets establish what we know and how well we know it before feeding from that particular trough. I mean many things come from schooling but it comes down to what we can recollect or maybe we have had a few experiences that expound on it.