What did people do before we had the internet to soothe our insecurities, make us feel good and give us hope?
Okay I'll bite...
I began college when the people who connected to the internet did so using a dial-up connection through AOL, when downloading a song on Napster took 45 minutes, before Google was synonymous with internet search.
I was the first in my family to attend a 4-year college and I had to rely heavily on advice from others - a lot of it was very bad or predicated on things that were simply not true in retrospect, but that's really all that was available to me. The university hooks up you with staff mentors, but the ones I had never worked outside of academia. The one I had as an undeclared major was clearly a person who majored in communications and thought it was completely okay to piss away money attending college with no real goal, and had no tools or resources to help students make that decision early enough so that they stay on a 4 year program. I made a decision for my college major essentially blind based on what I thought was best at the time.
By the time I graduated 4 1/2 years later, the web had grown so much that I no longer had to solely rely on my inner circle's opinions and advice. If it were not for the internet, I would not have become a naval officer because no one in my circle of connections knew how to do that other than attend the Naval Academy, and the local recruiting office was less than helpful in getting in touch with an officer recruiter until I called them out on their bullshit using information I gained from - you guessed it - the internet.
tl;dr - old man yells at cloud is entirely appropriate.