Facebook Questions Updated

Facebook Questions updated, revamped, and has been relaunched as a recommendation engine.  The new version of Facebook Questions is much simpler to use than its predecessor. Unlike its previous incarnation, rather than keeping Facebook Questions as a separate page, the feature now works on profile pages, and within news feeds.  Facebook Questions also lets users set up a poll with fixed answers or leave the question open ended, depending on the kind of question it is.  When a friend answers, the question is posted to his or her profile, and their friends can also answer the question, though Facebook filters results so friends’ answers (rather than friends of friends’) appear first.

Facebook Questions Updated | What Facebook has to say

According to a recent press release from Adrian Graham, the product manager for Facebook Questions:

Like many of our products, Facebook Questions originated as people began using Facebook in a new and unexpected way. People would update their status with a question, and their friends would answer in the comments. We saw this and began thinking about how we could make this interaction more useful. Over the summer, we began testing Facebook Questions with a small group of people, and today we are beginning to roll it out to everyone.

We noticed that people were frequently asking for opinions (“what are your favorite restaurants in New York?”) or hoping to learn about their friends (“what was your favorite movie as a kid, something you watched over and over?”). For most of these questions, experts weren’t going to be the best source for advice. The answers to these questions are meaningful or interesting because you know your friends and your friends know you.

We wanted to make questions easier and faster to answer. With the updated Facebook Questions you can agree with an existing answer with a single click, or you can add a different response. This makes it easy for many more people to respond to you. It also helps us show you the most popular responses.  https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150110059982131

Facebook Questions Updated | How it affects business

Facebook Questions will allow companies that properly position themselves onsocial medianetworks to allow their information to go viral.  Imagine being able to grow your businesses’ fan page and answer questions real time about your product or service when being asked!  Learning and participating in social media is becoming more vital for small businesses, and with the recent Facebook Questions updated and revamped, more tools are available.