Yeah, there's a reason why he doesn't really have friends, and my buddy always fucks with him. As his response is usually "well the internet told me this"
I always feel ashamed when I have to mention "I read it on the internet" or "I saw it in a youtube video" as any kind of evidence. Though I do feel like there are credible people on youtube sometimes. And obviously there are real resources on the internet. And wikipedia is way better than people like to pretend.
It really depends on how you bring up where you got the information from. As if you just say "well the internet told me" then you kind of sound like a tool. Though if you say "I heard from X credible sounding source" then you sound less of a dumbass.
Idk if I said the second part correctly, but bare with me.
Well yeah, I will admit to just saying "I saw it on the internet somewhere" when I can't remember at all, but thats not usually evidence, just like mentioning someone talking about a certain idea.
The reason why me and my friends give him shit, is that his justification for pretty much every opinion is "the internet told me" or "Reddit told me". It comes off like he forms his opinions based off of other opinions, rather than come to it himself. While I think we're all guilty of that at one point or another, but it does sound really sad when he talks about music, and more than once he responds with "this is the only album worth listening to from this band and it's the only one I've heard".
Yeah, thats pretty dumb.
I don't really do that with bands. I mean to some extent, like I guess I don't have a good opinion of present day Def Leppard even though I haven't really listened to them. A lot of those 80's bands are kinda washed up now though.
I have a friend that sorta does that, except not based of the internet. He just kinda picks a random stance based off of nothing and is really adamant about it, even if its clearly wrong. Like one time he was insisting my friend was shorter than this other guy, despite the fact that my friend and the other guy have checked their heights back to back and my friend was taller.
Yeah, I really hate people really adamant over a stupid opinion like that, or an adamant stance on an opinion over something really pointless.