Difference between useful to and useful for

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useful to (someone)
We hope to make our products more useful to consumers.
These plants may well be useful to us in unknown ways.
Bloomberg was a partisan to the extent that it was useful to him.

useful [to {verb}]
It may be useful to think of a computer network as being like a system of roads.
It could be useful to remind everyone that our basic needs never change.
It is useful to consider what California regulators have to say about chromium-6.

useful for (someone)
This website will be useful for future historians.
The service is useful for residents who are organizing a party.
The journalist wanted to explain technology in a way that was useful for readers.

useful for (something / a purpose)
This methodology could be useful for future interplanetary exploration.
Herbarium specimens are useful for plant identification.
The book contains information that is clearly useful for research.

useful for [ {verb}-ing ]
This new material might be useful for replacing damaged nerves.
Data structure diagrams are useful for documenting complex data entities.
Social networking is useful for drawing attendance to fundraising events.

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Difference between useful to and useful for

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