Do you need an honest opinion on something? Opinionaided is a mobile social networking application designed for asking opinions and advice to a large community in real-time. Similar to Quora (which came after) but from what I’ve seen it seems that this one is more used by the younger generation for questions such as – Do you like my new hairstyle? or Am I good-looking – whereas Quora is more for business type questions I find. However, you can filter these questions out and just go to a specific topic.
Opinionaided was launched in 2010 by founder Dan Kurani and co-founders Mike Melli and Matt Holloway and already has many users.
Originally for iPhone, ipod, and iPad, but is now available on Android and Online.
The interesting thing about Opinionaided is the phenomenal response rate – the first time I used it I asked a pretty lame question and within seconds I had 10 answers! What networking site can you say that about?
Its very easy to use there are five buttons at the bottom of the screen which are
- Home – Where you get two options – Ask for Opinions / Give your opinion
- Ask – Where you ask you question
- Vote – Where you can give your opinion and vote for questions.
- Results – Here you can see the answers to your questions and who you helped with your answers.
- Me – This is your profile page.
Need an honest opinion – how to ask
Type in your question, add a photo, and select a category, you can choose who to send it too, including any of your friends. You can also choose who not to include using the vote stream filter – then press Get Opinions!
At the top of this page you have 3 choices – Public – Friends – Contacts – or post to facebook or twitter.
You can check your responses on your question by going to results – here you can give people stars for the best answers or reply directly to them, which would then be in private.
To give an opinion
You can just go right ahead and start voting in Random or you can go to the top right button and select a category. You press thumbs up or thumbs down and type your opinion. To pass you can press Neutral. If you give a good answer you will get stars for your answer.
There are many chances to find friends, on the friends button – it pops up all over the place. You can find Facebook friends, Twitter friends, scan contacts or Search Opinionaided.
The last button at the bottom is ME.
Here you can see your profile – and see how many votes you’ve given and how many good advice stars you have received, people seem to be very generous giving stars.
You can also do this online, you can sign in using your application account details.
You have to be over 13 to use this application but it is easy to get around this. My son says that there are many kids younger than this on there, asking inappropriate questions or answering them. Although it seems to be monitored, and users can get banned or warned. Also if you put links or anything commercial it will get removed – not sure if that is only if it is flagged. There is a flag icon at the top of the question page and on user profiles to file reports.
Advice for asking questions given by Opinionaided
- Ask clean questions seeking honest opinions and advice.
- Use appropriate pictures that relate to your question.
- Make sure your question can be answered with a Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down.
- Be real, truthful and honest. Nobody likes a fake.
- Give other people helpful, polite advice. We’re all in this together!
My son, who is 17 has been using this application for months and must be one of the top users, I think that he is trying to get to be a Top Adviser. However – I really didn’t like the sound of it, but because of his enthusiasm and because I love to test out applications I had to try it, and I really can see how it can be very addictive, and useful.
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Hope this helps
