"Look it up on Line"..... the answer to everything?

I look up nearly everything online. Sometimes i don't think of it straight away but the idea eventually comes to me. I'm teaching myself Microsoft Excel at the moment through a free online tutorial. As for health issues, I think it's really important for us to be primarily responsible for ourselves. I look up any and all my symptoms. I look up any medications my doctor prescribes. I try to learn as much as I can so when I go to the doctors I have some idea what to tell him about my symptoms and what he is talking about.

Hey missy! I'm afraid to say that I do look up just about anything and everything! And yes, even if it is an ailment that I have a question about I will look it up and then discuss it with the doctor. I was diagnosed with something that I needed to check out some information on before I contacted my docs and all it did was make me call them sooner and scare the crap out of me! It happens to be something very serious that could be cancerous and I have to wait another month to go back to the doctor to have it checked out. I am waiting for my lousy Insurance to change so that if it is, God forbid serious, I will be covered. Isn't that wonderful? That is how it is living in NYS and being on Disability so say a prayer for me because I might be in big trouble.

I pretty much look everything up now online and of course I ask others opinions on it as well so that Im not solely going on just the opinion of whatever someone said online. What you read online is not always correct so you've got to be careful with what you do read and believe to be true.

I guess I kind of use both. I research a lot of things online but I also rely on the more traditional ways too. I go to the doctor and then come home and research what he said to me..lol.

hi missybear, I always find myself googling something whenever I am curious on just about anything. Internet is easier to access and the information is free. Although not all information on the net are credible and I am cautious in dealing what is a more reliable source of information and what are just hoax or unreal. But honestly, I am glad that I could get reliable infos on the net and I would still choose to learn things online since it is faster and easier to get.

There are a great many things I do look up online but I still have my off-line ways to a sense. Like I enjoy watching the news more so on TV then I do on the PC. If there is an emergency and or disaster I will follow it on the PC but find the TV news to be a bit more personal and informative. When I use to read, because I have been lazy in that area for a while, but I would prefer a book or an e-book. But overall I can see the convenience of looking up an address, and directions quicker online then going to a yellow book directory. So I suppose my response is geared more towards convenience, and what exactly I need to look up.

Oh yes. I envy students now.. every student who has access to the internet can easily make researches, they have more sources and they are able to find them very easily. hehe I would agree that now, people are bllessed with the internet and why not maximise the use if there is this opportunity. right? Some people still do things the conventional way though...

"Look it up online" is a bit too generic, because on the internet there are lot of resources and you could find many useful things. You can consult only wikipedia and yahoo answers and have a lot of incomplete or false informations but maybe if you are able to find the right site that maybe is focused about one single topic that could be useful. Sure that doesn't mean that once we find a good site we are done. It should only be a starting point if we don't know what to do, but then we must find more reliable resources. About the health matter, it's sure VERY dangerous to rely about the internet to check symptoms and not consulting a doctor. The same syntomps could depend on many things and being different for anyone according to our medical history so many times there's really no point in looking up for them online.

Yes,nowadays the internet is so important and helpful to us that we always ask it for help instead of something or someone else whenever we have problems,it's really convenient.But when you can't find your pet,do you still search for it online instead of looking for it here and there around your house?lol

It seems a different world nowadays. I had to explain to a teen that a book was made from a tree and i got a look to say that a was a sandwich short of a picnic. i do both now. although i am very aware of not to believe everything you read online!lol.