Why? 

Why is the most common question continuously pestered by young children and adults alike. Even after we've graduated from questions like "why is the sky blue?," we continue to be curious knowledge-seeking beings. After all, we're told there is so no such thing as a stupid question. 

When I was growing up asking the simple whys, my parents turned my inquisitive mind to The Big Book of Tell Me Why. Honestly, it was just a children's encyclopedia of commonly asked questions. But every time I turned the pages of the book to find what I thought was a definitive answer to my burning question, I felt satisfied. Of course that was the answer. No more discussion.

But now I'm prone to follow-up questions which quickly lead from one topic to another. And that's where my love for the plethora of information on the web (googling everything, seriously) plus relying on social recommendations comes in. So next up on the radar to answer my whys is Quora, the Q&A site with a lot of buzz this week.

So for a quick breakdown: today's Quora is yesterday's encyclopedia + Big Book of Tell Me Why + Google search + social search all neatly packaged in one. Or at least that's what they want it to be. 

Will you be using Quora? Tell me why. Have you found any valuable insights and discussions there that you couldn't find elsewhere? Personally, I've browsed, but kept quite for now. Though, I am looking forward to Quora answers being indexed by Google so they come up in results soon. 

I guess curiosity didn't kill the cat after all.