According to Mashable, Facebook has begun the roll out of their newest feature, Facebook Questions, allowing users to get answers to their questions from the entire Facebook community.
Facebook Questions is accessible via a "Ask Questions" button on the homepage or via friends' profiles just like posting on a wall.
- Photo questions: For example, if you take a picture of a bird, but don’t know what species it is, you can post the picture on Facebook Questions and get your answer.
- Polling: If you’re simply looking for the answer to Which city is better: Chicago or Dallas?, you can get your answer by creating a poll.
- Tagging: The company seems to be placing a lot of emphasis on tagging questions based on category or topic. The goal seems to be to make Q&A discovery an easier and faster process by making it simple to look up questions on cooking, photography, San Francisco or a variety of other topics.
- Topic exploration: Facebook described this as a roulette-type feature that allows users to browse Facebook’s eventual mountain of Q&A. Under the “Questions about” drop-down menu, there’s a feature called “Everything” that allows users to browse the company’s catalog of questions.
- Following: You can follow specific questions for updates and new answers.
- Updated homepage: Facebook Questions does actually change the homepage, adding a new bar at the top of the page where you can choose to update your status, ask a question, add photos, or post a link.
The feature has been rolled out to a group of beta testers today, and the company says it will “bring this product to all of you as quickly as we can.”
One important thing - the entire thing is public to the entire Facebook community, so think before you post.
