[ryandrake]

I think some people might just not know what a URL is or how it works. Browsers keep trying to downplay URLs and hide them (or parts of them), and I guess people are slowly forgetting they represent an "address" to a web page. I see this sometimes with younger people who didn't grow up when the web was emerging and everyone simply knew a URL was how you got to a web site. I've on more than one occasion had people send me a screenshot of a web page instead of just sending the URL. To me (late 40s) this seems bonkers, but to them maybe it's just how they do it.