Do people ask questions on Yahoo Answers because they are bored or lonely?

Question

Apparently some people thought I asked this question flippantly or to be mean. I can assure that neither is the case. This is a question I have been pondering for some time now.

In a world where we spend more time in front of a computer and less time interacting face to face I was thinking about why people would come here, to a forum of strangers and ask what are very serious questions. Are they lonely and looking for friends?

Answer 1

I ask questions, because I think that through Yahoo Answers I will get a helpful answer.

I answer questions as a form of procrastination. When I have ten minutes to kill I'll come to this site, because it's not as addictive as the news. And then if I get a "Best Answer" I'll end up coming back to see who thought I was smart, because it makes me feel good about myself.

Answer 2

Think approximately it, pricey. I bet you'll don't forget it a gift method...they may be able to reply a query by any means they prefer (rudely being the case with you) and be rewarded 2 features for it versus being banned to the depths of reply hell. Also, we do not recognise who those persons external of Yahoo! solutions, so of path it makes it less complicated. People will likely be persons on the web, excessive or now not. We simply must forget about it. I wish this is helping.

Answer 3

That's interesting I wouldn't know how to answer that. I am on here so much because its interaction with other people without getting into trouble I have too much time on my hands at work that I do come here. I think its acceptance in all actuality you are asking strangers to validate your feelings so that you don't feel like you are in the wrong. Its therapy and judgment its all of these things rolled into one. It is its own society and that's what it has become. Remember it is much easier to be criticize by letters and words without emotions attached to them then it is to hear it from a person who emphasizes things and puts emotions into their words.

Answer 4

Some times, but some people really need an answer to a question a can't figure out.

Answer 5

I think that some people ask question's on yahoo answers because they are bored.

And other's ask a question because they really do have a question to ask.

Answer 6

Check this Y!Answer fact:
Because they just begun to play the game...
They are in Level 1, 2, or 3

Answer 7

Believe it or not, there are some who have a very legitimate reason for their questions...and yes, there are bored and lonely people everywhere, not just in answers....

Answer 8

??? Seems an odd question to me.

Go to the Home page and read the questions. Refresh, lather, rinse, repeat.

Seems to me there are people who ask questions to find specific pieces of information (practical and as matters of curiosity), people who want advice or support, people who like to get a charge out of p*ssing people off, people who have an ax to grind, people (students) who want others to do their homework for them, and people who are bored, to name just a few of the kinds of questions here.

Like most questions here that ask "do people xxx because" (or "why do men/women xxx" for that matter), it falsely assumes one single reason, as though everyone on here was identical to everyone else on here.

I once saw the question "What motivates people?" as though there were only one thing that motivated every person in every thing they do.

And did I ever let THAT person have it! ;-)

Answer 9

I just wanted to know an answer to a question I couldnt find on my own.

Answer 10

i dont know if people ask on yahoo answers because they are bored but i ask question cause i want to know how many people would want to answer some questions that i want answered