Does this (Yahoo Answers) count as community service?

Question

Because technically, by answering peoples' questions, I am doing the community a service. I am just wondering if I can write this down in my college applications under community service (in addition to the 100 hours I need, not instead of them.)

Answer 1

No, it wouldn't help at all.. They don't know what questions you've answered, what kind of responses you've made, etc. It would also make you seem VERY pathetic, like you sit at the computer all day or something.

Answer 2

there arent enought serious questions. except if you help people who ask about what to do with their future, if you help depressed people and stuff like that. but in college they wont take it enought seriously, except if you prove them what kind of questions are you answering.

Answer 3

good luck getting your supervisor to agree to this.

Answer 4

Hey, you're right!! ..I'm putting this on my application when I apply to Howard. Do you think it would look good? I already have like 50 hours...lol.

Answer 5

Sadly I must inform you...No.

Answer 6

Not unless you had a **significant** impact in your contributions that would be easy to identify by someone visiting your online profile here. For instance: Are you a top contributor to any particular branch of Yahoo!Answers and, if so, which one? What subject has been the focus of your "help"? How many questions have you answered? How many of your answers have been chosen as best? Has anyone written you to say that your answers had some kind of impact on their life? Have you been an advocate for a particular activity that benefits the community? What other measures could you put forward to say that your time on Yahoo!Answers has had positive impact in some way?

If you want to volunteer online, here are some better suggestions that *will* count:

Project Gutenberg is always looking for online volunteers to proofread texts which are made freely available to the world. Volunteering for Project Gutenberg is something you can do from your home.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

LibriVox is a nonprofit effort that mobilizes volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain. LibriVox then publishes the audio files on the Internet, via its web site. The goal is to record al books in the public domain! Volunteering for LibriVox is something you can do from your home. You can listen to free audiobooks recorded by volunteers, or volunteer to record yourself reading a chapter of a book in the public domain to share with everyone, by going to the LibriVox web site:

http://librivox.org/

And then there's the Online Volunteering service

http://www.onlinevolunteering.org

This service recruits online volunteers to help organizations working in or for the developing world. Opportunities include web design, research, graphic design, translation, strategy development, proposal writing, database design, technical advice, and on and on.