If you want to recommend something, where do you go? Twitter? Facebook? Topic-specific networks like Yelp, Goodreads, thesixtyone, etc? Email/IM?<p>Similarly, if you're looking for a recommendation, do you use Vark? Google? Twitter?<p>Since I know someone's going to say it: Yes, I'm using HN for research. Is there something wrong with that?
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I usually ask people I trust directly via email, phone, IM or face-to-face.<p>When I tweet asking for stuff, I tend to get people I do not know recommending things, usually things that they have some interest in pushing on me. Ick.