Reinventing the wheel

There is too much stuff on the internet. There is too much of the same stuff on the internet. 

This morning I did something stupid and unnecessary. I went online and searched for the difference between wax crayons and oil pastels. The thing is that I have used both and I know what the differences are. So the search was not needed. Why did I do it? 

I did it because I wanted some strangers on the internet to tell me what I already know. To reassure me. To have someone echo back with an opinion that is essentially my own. This is stupid. 

While I was looking at the search results I noticed that there are a lot of web pages which are addressing the comparison between wax crayons and oil pastels. Everyone is posting up the same information. While thinking about this I considered that it also happens for a lot of other topics. How many people need to post the same old stuff that everyone else already has? 

Is everyone so desperate to create their own space online in which they try to establish themselves as some sort of authority on something? An authority on crayons? 

There's a lot of things that you could be doing with your day. A lot of important and necessary things. But I'll guarantee you that becoming a world-leading expert on crayons is not one of those things. And neither is looking it up online.