What are the pros and cons to being on Yahoo Answers?

Question

Do you feel your time is wasted or do you think it is time well spent ?

Do you think that you spend too much time here(waste time)?

Are the answers really good for the time you spend on here?

Do you feel that yahoo answers is an addiction in your life that you are trying to lessen or stop ?

Why , if you think it is, are talk forums a waste of time and why are they so addictive?

Answer 1

Quite a lot of the questions are asked by people who really need to know something. Some are to spout political points of view, or religious as though there is much difference, some are whimsical and a good way to sharpen your wits.

One of the best things about it is you get to look really smart while answering good questions. And while many of the questions are trivial or nasty in some way, added to the fact that I really haven't read every question asked and therefore have no scientific objective way of measuring this, I believe most of the questions profit somebody,
and therefore,
everybody.

And for every opinion there is at least either a supporter or some opponent who can politely disagree, Civil Discourse takes a giant step forward.

My speech sometimes becomes so garbled or seemingly disjointed, that any attempt at communication would result in the other person becoming angry because he can't understand me and me becoming angry at not being understood.

Chat and chat-like fora like these have opened a whole new dimension of communication for me.

So do you think it is a waste of time?

Answer 2

Pros: There are some good questions on here. It's sort of fun. It's something to do when I'm bored but too tired to do much of anything else. I've only asked one question. It's more fun to answer.

Cons: It can be addictive. I'm appalled at the intolerance and rudeness I see at times.

Answer 3

i find it is good to get a general opinion of peoples views sometimes my answers are taken wrong but i live with it lol i find some people are on here just to talk about things that are not relevant but i enjoy the whole debate u can have

Answer 4

Well for one thing. you have to be careful what question you are putting on here even if it wouldn't be harmful because there is some people in here that are VERY immature. they will call you names, insult you, and all the bull crap! but there is alot of people here that are mature enough to answer your question in a decent matter.

Answer 5

I think the answers ...in many cases..are good enough to warrant the system

Answer 6

Pros:
Fun
Cures boredom
Helps me learn things

Cons:
Worse than crack