Quora: The Next Big Thing?

A few days back I heard a few students talking in the train about Quora. Nothing that I was hearing it for the first time but they got into an interesting discussion - Is Quora going to be the next big thing?

Surprisingly, no one differed and all were contributing in favor of positive side of the topic. That's when I thought I'd better check that site again. That's when it clicked - Yes! 

BTW, Quora is a website where you can post your questions and people answer your questions, answerer could be anyone - from a school kid to an executive in a company to a research scientist, anyone! Having said that, Quora looks to me like an exclusive discussion forum in a magnified manner. Any question you post will be answered by someone interested in that area and there are frequent discussions you can choose to have on your selected topic with different people. That is, you can expand your contact list too if you've been frequently getting a participation from the same set of people. Who knows? You people may collaborate and work out on some problem together.

I went too far with it, didn't I? But that was my first impression of Quora. The fact is, wikipedia describes Quora as 'online knowledge market' and I think that is pretty much what is required to describe it. 

Is Quora The Next Big Thing? Certainly. It will serve as a replacement to online forums. Instead of going to different portals and posting your queries, you might get all your answers here, all in one place. Frankly, there's one more factor that influences my opinion here - founder. He is the ex-CTO of Facebook. Afterall we all know how Facebook is a part of our lives, just as Google. I expect Quora too, to be on that list, soon!