The Opportunity Cost of Relationship Advice

"If you're single or having trouble with a relationship where is the first place you go? "

That's an easy question to answer you're doing right now, you go into Google or some other search engine and type in your problem and try to sift through the billions of answers that are there which till now till thy kingdom come you will not find. 

Why?

Relationship advice on the internet is not necessarily given to solve your individual problem, as you should realize by now that every experience has distinct variations which include but are not limited to, the humans that are involved in the relationship. Economist try to work out how to control the human element but relationships revolved around spontaneous or unpredictable outcomes. 

But why do people continue to go to Google for advice instead of asking their peers or advisers?  The general idea is the opportunity cost. Google doesn't judge you, tell you your questions are silly or outright lie to you. You don't have to explain what is going on to Google you literally can search almost anonymously. 

So that is the opportunity cost of telling a third party, but what are the social costs?

Most people however still go to their friends for advice but many times they don't go for the objective friend who will help them try to reason out the problems. They tend to go to the friend who will either be a yes man or will encourage negative emotions and thoughts which we all know leads to problems.

As well as another issue is fear I really don't have to go into that one.

PS: Opportunity cost is price of the additional benefits or least you have foregone for not choosing the other option