Abstract: A live polling means used to distribute a polling request on whether or not to purchase a product or for any polling purpose between a user and members of a user's social network, commonly via mobile phones or handheld computers. A user creates a product profile by completing product information fields manually or via prior art product code/barcode scanning means; alternatively and similarly, a user submits a polling purpose with information reasonably necessary for polling members to make a polling decision, for example, a proposed meeting time. Poll members respond with a final decision whether or not to buy, or alternatively with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ final decision, and may submit comments along with a final decision. User-created personal profiles, product profiles, polling purposes, final decisions and comments are sent to a third party for creating and maintaining product information and polling purpose database(s).