Why does everyone feel the need to ask these questions?

Just to put themselves or their question "out there".

I completely agree. Someone asked the other day how old one of the Jonas Brothers is and when his birthday is. I've never listened to the Jones Brothers, but I could find the answer by looking it up on Wikipedia. Why couldn't the person do that herself? It bugs me too.

I know, that's what this link is for: http://www.lmgtfy.com/

In some questions though people really do give their opinion, or give out knowledge based on their personal experiences, which can't be found online. This happens more in certain categories e.g. the dating ones, cooking ones, parenting ones.

some people don't know it's there, like translation sites, some people never heard of any sites like them. The point is that they trust the answers community to know instead of google, but you know they do have a price of 5 points to ask a question. It is not my job to judge anybody, I am not going to say they are dumb.

dude, it drives me CRAZZYYYYY!!!! it's like they never heard of a search engine.

Or "What does this word mean?" you can't find the definition of a single word with the entire internet at your disposal?!?!?! Holy cow.

And then i get violations for saying that.

goes to show how stupid people really are

i don't know and apparently they don't know either !

my question is why do you have to be so rude to people you don't even know?