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# Quora: Over-hyped and flooding my in-box
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2011/01/quora_over-hyped_and_flooding_my_in-box/
- Published: 2011-01-07T18:49:35.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:05:47.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: fads, hype, quora, web 2.0

Time for a confession: I’m a [Quora](http://www.quora.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) sceptic. There’s nothing specific about the service itself that’s causing this – I’ve barely used it so far – but the way both it and people around it are behaving suggests to me that we have a flash in the pan here.

First of all, my in-box is full of Quora spam. Several people have pointed out to me that the service is replete with granular e-mail notification settings, which is great, but the fact that the defaults are so, well, spammy, just sets my alarm bells ringing. Here’s what happens: someone signs up for Quora, adds their Twitter list, and every single person on their Twitter list who is on Quora with default e-mail settings gets an e-mail. With a couple of dozen people who follow me on Twitter joining Quora every day, that’s a lot of spam. Dumb.

Also, my gut feeling, [as I’ve blogged before](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/08/the%5Fwave%5Fthat%5Fdrowned.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), is that the Next Big Thing, whatever it turns out to be, won’t be this hyped. And Quora is *really* hyped right now. Every previous Next Big Thing, from blogging, through Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and more has gone through an extended period of quiet use by a small, but steadily growing pool of users and evangelists, before the real mainstream growth kicks in. I’ve never seen a major Next Big Thing on the web go from zero to hero in about 10 days.

I’m putting Quora down and walking away. If it’s still looking useful in a month’s time, I’ll re-evaluate. But I’m not keen to waste time on the Next Flash In The Pan.