Disclaimer - this is my personal opinion, I do not care about what others say!
Finally.. after using quora for 2 months I finally found my calling to actually de-activate and delete my quora account. People on quora generally speak about deleting or deactivating facebook account, but, yeah, as you understand, I prefer to walk away from the crowd, so I decided to do the other way round. deleted the quora account instead of facebook.
I chose to do this since I very well know how to use facebook. I have 75% of my friends on restricted list and remaining 10% of whom I do not follow. Now you can imagine, how many handful of updates my facebook wall shall have. So I have mastered the art of managing time on facebook.
But on quora it was all about mastering the art of not reading the so called junk written by n00bs. Well let me put down the reasons why I chose to quit quora.
1. I chose to follow top writers, most of whom had a fan following of thousands highest being 35k.
I thought these gentlemen or women, would write something interesting, something which I could relate to. But it was nothing but disappointment. They wrote about their ups and downs their field experiences etc etc.
So the point is-
- Why should I read about their failures / experiences when I can myself be in the field and experience failure myself. May be reading their failures might help me make a better decision, but no guarantee. Who knows if I can remember what they wrote and apply at that very moment.
- If I had to read about failures, I would read about failures of Mahatma Gandhi or Abraham Lincoln and why a bunch of people who write on quora?
2. Quora had become more of a disturbance at office, with two monitors, I would have one monitor dedicated to quora or would browse it for 10 minutes in every hour. It was very distracting. I reduced my quora usage to 10 minutes for every 3-4 hours. But still after reading answers of few people, I thought even 10 minutes was not worth it.
3. People told me to follow even better top writers. I could find some top writers on quora. but believe me, I could not relate to what they write. They wrote about aeroplanes, physics so many topics, none of which I am interested in. Even in the section for automobiles, I found it very tough to actually make quora give out stuffs which I am interested in.
4. Career advice and self help answers written by Indian counterparts was a big let down. I thought it was nothing but copied and re-phrased content from self help websites available on the internet. So another big let down.
5. 40% of quora users are Indians, now you can take your decision wisely!
Will add more points. but for now, happy to use facebook in a limited way instead of quora. Its been 4-5 days since I read from quora.
One thing quora did help me get into. More on that in another post!
Cheers,
