I’ve noticed recently that selling my lenses have been quite difficult. I keep getting young kids asking all sorts of questions that could be answered if they googled the model number. “Is it autofocus?” “Is this for full frame?” “Will this work on my camera?” “Is it good for real estate?”
It’s like a whole younger generation of photographers don’t know how to research things and get their information from youtube and tiktok where you can’t search model names or technical specs.
I don’t think this is a “these kids these days” issue. I suspect this sort of thing has always been around.
It’s just that these days the internet facilitates communication and allows for a post to reach more people and more people to reach back out. In the past they would have had to go up to you physically to talk, now they can fire off hundreds of dumb questions form the comfort of their bed.