| News date: 2nd August 2010 |
 Last week, Facebook introduced a new service that lets its members ask their friends, or the Facebook community at large, any question in any topic.
It's not the first question-and-answer service, or the best--but with 500 million registered Facebook users who will get access to it in the coming weeks, it's got the potential to steal page views and users away from competitors.
To get a greater understanding of how Facebook Questions works, we're taking a quick look at what it does and how it stacks up to the a small segment of the competition in terms of features and overall draw.
Facebook Questions lets Facebook users ask their friends, or the Facebook user base at large, any question that's on their mind. These questions can be tagged to fit into various categories and written up just like any other update from the top of Facebook profile pages.
Following the trend of making Facebook pages more public, question pages can be seen by anyone on the service. Facebook is encouraging users who want to ask private questions to use Facebook's private messaging system instead.
Users are able to hop between different questions within a topic, as well as follow ones so that they a notification when there are any updates. Question pages contain answers that can be marked as helpful or unhelpful. Facebook does not actually arrange these in any sort of order based on those ratings, though it does give you an idea of who each person is using a small amount of information from their profile. |
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| Source: cnet news |
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