Quora

I have been on Quora for little less than an year. There are days when I spend more times reading answers on Quora than I spend on Facebook. There are other places on internet where people ask questions and other people answers them. I regularly post questions on Stack Overflow sites, and have posted questions rarely on Quora. Most of the time when I need to find an answer quickly, top links reported by Google are invariably from Yahoo answers. Then where does the utility of Quora lies in ? I think, in the space of web QnA sites, Quora has carved its own niche – Questions. Interesting questions, questions you never thought of and yet when you see them you start to think that knowing this will be good.

If I remember correctly, when I registered on Quora for first time it asked for some topics I would like to follow. I chose few and then I could see latest updates on those topics. It was fine for some days but then signal to noise ratio started to decrease. Or at least my perception of it started to go southward. I also started to notice that by following people, I was able to discover more interesting content than by following the topics. And this is when I decided to stop following all the topics and started to focus on finding people with interesting tastes. These may not be the people who ask lots of questions or write good answers. These are the people who have interest in things I have interest, and they read and up vote indicating me where the better stuff it. And by better stuff, I mean the interesting questions. If you know the question, finding an answer to that is easy on internet. Coming up with the question is difficult.