Seeking help via the Cyberspace.

When we need help, we usually seek the aid of another person, like our family, especially in the previous years. This might be helpful because the helper is physically present and can even help with what we are doing. Even if he or she is helping you via the phone, you can ask questions to them real-time.

But what if our helper has limited knowledge of the subject of our problem? Will you seek the aid of others? That is usually fine, but it can be a lot of trouble and time-consuming. Luckily in today’s modern world there is an alternative in seeking help. This kind of help can be found on the World Wide Web and they are called online help.

There are many kinds of online help sites. Examples of these are FAQS, forums and how-to websites. In this article we shall only focus on how-to sites.

How-to sites are where you will find many problems and the instructions for the solutions are organized on a step-by-step format. Examples of these sites are wikiHow and eHow. There are many topics on these sites like “how do I delete songs from my iPod”, “how do I fix my mobile phone keypad” or “how do I fix my sticky keyboard”. Other than just technical problems, there are also solutions to problems in love life, family, health, and a variety of other topics. Best of all you can put a comment on these sites to tell others if that instruction is really helpful or not. Best of all, if you are not satisfied with the one that you saw or if that solution did not work for you, you can always look at other tips that tackle the same problems but have different approaches. There are many individuals posting their instructions that are sometime not too helpful or has incomplete instructions. You should be patient when looking for help online. This applies to other types of online help too.

Even though online help can really aid an individual a lot, personal help is always the best help that you can seek. How-to sites are just an alternative if there are no other persons capable of helping you regarding a topic. But if you have friends that are knowledgeable on the topic of your problem, then by all means seek their help instead. Personal help is always much, much better that the kind of assistance online help has to offer.