Assuming you get an answer, once web crawlers find and index your problem, that question and answer is part of the fabric of the web and can potentially help any future travellers as well.

That's an unnecessarily optimistic assumption. Even if you don't get an answer your question and the thread full of unhelpful replies you get still becomes part of the fabric of the web, and if you ask it in a popular enough place your question plus 40 pages of "lrn 2 google nub!" will be the #1 search result that future travelers will have to navigate past on their way to finding the answer.

Thus his final qualifying statement: Done right, Lazyweb is a part of the net public good.
(Edit: never mind, he bolded the entire sentence.)

Finally, a name I can attach to it! So often I see people asking questions on FB that I find the answer to on the first page of Google results.

Also, is "Google it" the new RTFM?

Nah, think of "Google it" as like back in the old days when someone would ask a person, "May I trouble you for the time?", and instead of that person lifting up his wrist to tell, they used to shout, "Go look at a fucking clock you fucking lazy shit!" Ah, good times those were.

I remember reading somewhere, "some people seem way too eager to abandon the semblance of a conversation."

It's more like when someone asked you what time it was in an enormous clock museum filled with basically every clock in the world. If you didn't shout they'd never hear you over the ticking of all the clocks they were ignoring.

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." - Segal's Law

I'm a fan of doing one's own research, but it's very easy to run into issues where you know the problem but not the jargon that would make a solution easy, and a lot of stuff that's obvious in hindsight is impenetrable before learning it. Also some people seem way too eager to abandon the semblance of a conversation. If somebody posts using a term I don't recognize I'm probably going to say "what's that" rather than go look it up because that's what people do when talking to each other.

Can someone upmod this post? Thanks.

I would but Paracetamol didn't post the article in the extended, so can you tell me what it's about?

It's a short read:

Nice.

Another aspect of this is the question asked in order to make a statement, as opposed to the question asked in search of an answer. People that are too lazy (or incompetent) to compose a statement will ask a question, knowing someone will reply with the statement they wish they could have made. Reddit’s Out-of-the-Loop https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/ is a good example of this.

I love that when I clicked on that “How To Ask Questions The Smart Way”, and then clicked on NoScript to allow scripts to run, the appearance didn’t change at all. © 2001

It should be noted that the guy writing that post is the lead dev behind Stack Overflow.