Incredibly lazy or just using a good resource?

I wonder about some of the questions here, and I'm not talking your average question, but I mean the questions where the asker just seems so lazy. For example, people asking how much something would cost (when they can use that famous invention called the telephone and call around for free estimates), or asking about stuff they can really find out with a very, very small amount of legwork on their own (sometimes just by typing something into a search engine). Does anyone answer those types of questions? Do you ever wonder what they were thinking, or do you think they were just using Y!A as the resource that it is?

I'm not passing judgment either way, because to each his own.

A little both ways I suppose. Some people when new to the internet can't create good searches and so to them it seems very difficult to find information, when to more experienced users, this is an incredibly simple thing to do.

I do agree however it has almost been harder for some people to ask a question here on yahoo answers than it would have been to find the answer on their own. I confess I have decided against answering a question that I could have, simply because it was so basic the asker on;y needed to give it a little more thought themselves.

Yeah it's a little annoying. It really annoys me when people obviously want you to do their homework for them...

Using this as a resource.

Incredibly lazy. especially those who try to get others to dotheir homework for them.

lazy

I think some people are just asking things for the sake of building up points. It's kinda silly really.

But I've wondered this too. I just saw a question asking where the Dominican Republic was, and I thought . . . you are on the internet. Look it up.

So, maybe it's laziness. Or something else. Either way, it seems silly.

I don't use this site as a place to do research... I just use it to ask questions about people... I do my research on my own!

I think some times people are just looking for direction! Peace!