text: Lastly, you will get reassurance. Lets say you like this dress and you try it on. You ask your friend for their opinion and they say it looks good, but you'd also like to know what other people think about the dress so you ask the workers at the store and they politely say that is doesn't look good on you. Would you have taken the dress based on your friends opinion or the workers? I'm pretty sure no one would have taken the dress if they got negative opinions from people. Honesty, when I get a compliment from someone I ask other people if its true, because one persons opinion isn't enough for to me believe something, So basically I feel that people ask others for their opinion for the same reason.