Ask Friends On Orkut
Google’s social networking site Orkut has recently launched a new feature, called Ask Friends, which allows users to pose questions to friends and receive answers from them.
While asking questions the users can either direct their question to specific friends or allow the system to automatically route the question to a subset of friends who have answered similar questions before.
According to Orkut, the new feature will be of particular benefit to users who are seeking personal suggestions, recommendations, advice or private information from their friends.
This idea is not new, as other social networking sites such as LinkedIn already have similar features. However, it does point to the growing popularity of such forms of social interaction as I had mentioned in a previous post.
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