Ever Been Misled by Online Household Advice?

[Jules]

There’s so darn much info available now. You should be really cautious of Tik Tok, FB and similar sites. Heck, maybe even here. I make it a point of searching for more info on a hint. Better safe than sorry.

Yesterday I read a household hint to clean your oven by heating a dishwasher tab in a dish of water in your oven. Apparently this all over these sites and now they’re reporting it’s causing damage to the ovens.

 

[Nathan]

It's always a good practice to double check material online. If it sounds really great and fantastic, better triple check it.

 

[Murrmurr]

Plant care is another one that's rife with harmful and useless advice. I see a lot of it on YouTube, especially advice on orchids.

My rule; if the video is narrated by AI, it's BS. AI narration is easy to recognize. It invariably mispronounces simple words and usually sounds like "Alexa".

 

[officerripley]

The worst hint I ever tried was to use a fabric-softener dryer sheet (like Bounce) to clean your TV screen. Uh, no, don't! It streaked it up worse than ever.

 

[Remy]

I hope you didn't try it @Jules Lots of good info out there but yes, probably more to be very cautious of. If not plain dangerous.

 

[helenbacque]

Pranking is a fun pastime for meanies and it is not limited to kids. Oldsters can be gullible. Some of us grew up in gentler times. We tend to believe if spoken with authority.

 

[Jules]

I hope you didn't try it @Jules Lots of good info out there but yes, probably more to be very cautious of. If not plain dangerous.

No. I triple quadruple check everything.

 

[VintageBetter]

There’s so darn much info available now. You should be really cautious of Tik Tok, FB and similar sites. Heck, maybe even here. I make it a point of searching for more info on a hint. Better safe than sorry.

Yesterday I read a household hint to clean your oven by heating a dishwasher tab in a dish of water in your oven. Apparently this all over these sites and now they’re reporting it’s causing damage to the ovens.

I don't remember if I have ever followed bad house chore advice. I have probably followed bad shopping advice but I can usually always return stuff.

But I have read others giving the unwitting bad and dangerous household chore advice. If I'm on the site I'll try to correct them.

But, this is just one reason why I see the Internet as a giant, dangerous orphan child desperately in need of parents, i.e. LAWS, to rule its dangerous behavior. But Congress is not feeling parental and does not want to adopt the Internet right now.

It's like this orphan is a slave for the economy and Congress is not done getting all of the slave labor it can out of the thing before they want to reign it in and adopt it. Very Jeffersonian. (I mean that as an insult.)