Linky Linky

"Linky Linky" was a term I originally found on a message board I frequented back in the early 00s. It was a playful request to provide a link to the source material that someone was basing their argument or position on during a discussion.

Since then, and college, I always to try to have a link to whatever data or article I am referring to if I can help it. Sometimes I don't, especially if I'm just typing away at the keyboard with no goal in mind. However, when I can I do.

I recently read this article by Thomas Hartman whom I'm connected to on Google+. His article, or blog post, cites a story in the New York Times about the lack of social mobility in the United States due to the top one-percent earners lobbying for laws and policies that keep the rest of us down.

Great. Now, I'd like to read said article. However, Thomas Hartman doesn't link to it anywhere in his post. Which I find very annoying. It's just a personal preference of mine to have the subject presented for discussion actually presented for discussion. And I told him so in my reply to his post:

It's really annoying when someone writes an article or a blog post about an article or a blog post and does not link to said article or blog post. Now I have to go to NYTimes.com and find the article you're referencing.

 Does anyone else get annoyed by these sorts of things? Am I being too picky? I don't think so, but then again none of us really think we're being too picky when we're being too picky.