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Surprised that no one has mentioned the other side of a program - Answering the questions.

Yes, cool, a guy walking in unknown city, takes a photo, and gets personalised answer from a friend.

On the other side: a guy doing something more than meaningless, gets a mobile notification that his friend asked for the knowledge he knows about. Sounds like a perfect distraction - any time, any place, requires an action taken.

Taking stackoverflow in comparison, user is not delivered with random questions in random periods of the day.



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