A few hours ago, Scott Goodson published a post on Forbes.com entitled, “Why is Quora Exploding?” In his post he muses, “Today, Quora has… built… a lovely space where genteel thought leaders ask questions, provide answers and debate ideas in an open forum.”
This is truly one of the best explanations of Quora that I have read to date.
Like many others in my circle, after hearing much to do about Quora at the end of last year, in 2011 I decided to finally dive in and begin to explore what this new platform had to offer. A few weeks, a few topics and a few hundred followers later, for me it’s been love at first sight. Quora feels a bit like Facebook and a bit like Twitter. It provides answers to questions like Yahoo answers. And yet the feel of this community is quite distinct than the feel of any of the other platforms that I’ve just mentioned. It is not set up to just provide answers to questions. It is not set up to merely provide updates to a community of followers and friends.
It’s set up to create thought provoking dialogue and conversations about different topics that run the gamut from social media to business and philosophy.
For me the feel of Quora is reminiscent of some of my favorite graduate level courses at Cornell University.
It is that exploration that is so attractive.
When I asked folks on Twitter what they thought of Quora, one person responded: “It’s like twitter, but just for smart people.”
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