Quora.com - crowd-sourced question and answers website

Quora is a community-based questions and answers website and app. Users post questions on any topic and other users respond. Users can sign up using Facebook, Twitter, Google or email. As part of the registration process, they are asked to select five areas of interest to follow.

Quora is an interesting site that feels part search engine and part social network, but its purpose is to both give you answers and allow you to answer questions for others in subjects you're knowledgeable about. There's quite a bit more to it than that, which is why we're going to show you what exactly Quora is and how to use it right. 

• "In a few words, Quora is a questions and answers website. It was founded in 2009 by two ex-Facebook employees, and was actually almost called Quiver instead. Nonetheless, this Q&A website has seen tremendous growth since its inception, where it's been quite aptly described as, "a more organized Yahoo Answers, a classier Reddit, and an opinionated Wikipedia" according to Vox's Recode journalist, Theodore Schleier".