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One thing that the internet has removed is the endless debates / discussions / disagreements between friends and family about different facts. We just now google the facts and the argument is over as soon as it starts.

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I wish. Instead, we spend our time arguing over the qualifications of the differing sources found via Google. "But he has a doctorate too!"

Facts are, ironically, getting harder to find and verify these days.

I'd say, we up the difficulty of our discussions. Things we would discuss in the past (e.g. which year was XYZ born) are now settled beyond dispute with a quick google. Now we are stuck discussing questions that cannot be resolved this way.

But now everyone has his own facts, that they can back up with authoritative sources like Breitbart or @GlobalWarmingLie.

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