[nightpool]

I dunno, I find Googling-enabled conversation to be just different, not necessarily better or worse then pre-Google convos. This might have more to do with me growing up with them though

(also, I misclicked the upvote button and downvoted you instead, sorry!)

[vacri]

I'm gen Oregon Trail as well, and I prefer fact-checking in conversation. It drives me nuts to see people run down a rabbit-hole for an hour over an obvious misconception. Online fact-checking doesn't really ruin conversations in my view, and it helps stop spread misinformation.

[k-mcgrady]

Googling'-enabled' conversation tends to end the conversation in my experience. Someone looks up the answer and we're done.

[azernik]

With people I know, that's usually the prompt to jump to a related topic. Long conversations tend to end up looking like collaborative Wikipedia link surfing.

[nightpool]

Generally, I just tend to end up talking about things that can't be trivially fact-checked. YMMV I guess