Do we really need another crowd-powered Q&A site? You can answer that question below using Blopboard, a new social media network centered around asking and answering questions. I know, I know. Just what we need—another outlet to hear our peers’ infuriating thoughts and opinions. But whereas Facebook and Twitter are mostly just a collection of unsolicited musings, Blopboard was created with a focused purpose: To find out what other people actually think about stuff.

Blopboard is more social polling site than traditional social network, but its founders are hoping eventually that distinction will become blurrier. It’d be easy to compare Blopboard to its more established peers; and indeed, the ask and answer platform is already a known quantity in the tech world. “Quora’s great, but it’s for experts. Jelly’s great, but it’s different,” says Amy Kaufman, who founded the site with her partner James Stafford. “With the other social polling sites out there, we just thought there was something lacking in the user experience.”

The team began thinking about building Blopboard a few years back when they realized there was no easy way to get a clear sense of the collective internet’s opinions. Sure you can Google an article or ask your friends on Facebook what they think about the conflict in the Middle East, but you still have to wade through a ton of information before you can glean any sort of value. Worse yet, is the fact that oftentimes when you do answer polls online, that information is often locked away. “You give your answer and it goes off into a galaxy far far away,” says Kaufman. “You can’t play with the information. We wanted to give people something that was their tool, give them access to information and the ability to manipulate it.”

Designed by a Data Viz Guru

The site, which was designed by Eddie Opara, a partner at Pentagram who's been lauded for his work in information design, looks a little like Pinterest, with its rows of boxes and big, colorful pictures. Any time you ask a question on Blopboard, you can choose from five different forms of infographic to illustrate the results. Answers are updated in real time, which means as soon as someone votes, you see that reflected in the accompanying infographic. “The thing about infographics is that they need to be simple and understood by the larger public,” explains Opara. “I’ve seen a lot of infographics that are really cool looking, but you don’t know what the hell it means. That’s not what we wanted.”

Kaufman envisions Blopboard as a place where you can ask any question you please. And truly, the questions you’ll find there are a mix of thoughtful and inane. There are categories for politics, current news and psychology but also celebrity and pets. Among the most popular questions are: Do you care about being tracked on the internet? (70 percent answered yes, 30 percent no.) What is the best song by the Beatles? (42 percent say it’s “Come Together.” Which is insane.) And, Do you own a juicer? (52 percent. Seriously?)

In its current form, it Blopboard is less about finding actionable answers (like Jelly or Quora) and more about casting a wide net on the greater internet consciousness. Does that have value? Kaufman seems to think so, but it’s really a question of context and scale. It would be nice to have at least some general information about who’s answering the questions and why. You can look at people’s profiles to see what they’ve answered, but not how they’ve answered. There’s also space for comments.

You can imagine that once Blopboard is able to break down answers based on more granular, but anonymous demographics, the site’s data will be much more interesting to parse. Kaufman says there are plans to implement more detailed infographics (as well as a private polling option). And perhaps bigger companies will embrace the platform as a way to poll its audiences.

Aesthetically speaking, Blopboard is miles beyond most polling interfaces, which gives it an edge. But for now,the ask and answer format is just another way to see what’s on the internet’s mind. To illustrate: A recent question inquired: What should Uber deliver next? The options were, groceries, office supplies, marijuana or alcohol. “The consensus was, 57 percent of people think they should deliver marijuana,” says Kaufman. You heard it here first.