One of the most popular websites of 2015 was Quora is a Questionnaire gone Viral. Surprisingly, Quora is nothing but a platform where people ask questions while some others answer, debate, argue and leave no end to it. Your questions rarely go unanswered because of the wide popularity of Quora. But then why a platform so simple and similar to contemporaries like Yahoo Answers went viral?
How to operate in Quora
For beginners, creating an account in Quora is very simple. You can connect with your facebook, Google+ or sign up free for a Quora account. Of course, it is free. It is a simple, user friendly knowledge sharing platform. You can answer questions to level up and others upvote it.
There are primarily two reasons for anything to go viral – it’s enjoyable and it’s addictive. Definition of enjoyable varies, for Facebook is maybe posting on the wall while for twitter it is checking the latest update. Similarly, for Quora it is answering a question and getting a feedback. But the question still remains what makes Quora so much fun?
Let’s look into the facts that make Quora an addiction.
1. Strategy: Though it may seem that it is just a platform for questionnaire, but Quora maintains a strong strategy and that is to keep up with the trends. Quora identifies the ideas on the rise and nurtures those ideas, when one person asks a question and the others answer, there may be a thousand other persons who are enquiring about the same question and benefitting from the conversation.
2. Marketing: It has become a major platform for marketing and advertisement. Quora questions and answers are tricks to make a product known to the right customers.
3. People: Quora is made highly popular because of the people who interact here. From top techies to professors, Quora is filled with smart people giving appropriate answers. A lot of top web designers, web developers and renowned non-technical people are regulars at Quora.
4. Quora Careers: At present, Quora is hiring technical and non-technical people to expand. Quora addicts and armchair critics can find a huge opportunity to utilize their passion in the form of their work in Quora environment.
5. Platform Independence: Quora app for windows, Quora app for android, for PC is making the website platform independent. Now, you can check your questions while travelling and even answer them while you’re attending a boring lecture in college. From choice of movies to Windows 10 bug fixes, Quora has something for everybody.
6. Quora Care: We all love to get gifts, and for Quora gifts come in the form of questions. Quora digest is a newsletter that drops into your inbox and provides you the suggestions for questions that you might be interested in. Often these questions are more useful than junk, and you end up spending more number of hours in Quora.
So, join Quora now and start asking questions!