Thursday, July 29, 2010

Facebook Introduces an Answer Service

This seems like a pretty good idea and I hope it really takes off.

Facebook Questions helps you tap into the collective knowledge of the more than 500 million people on Facebook. For example, if you're vacationing in Costa Rica and want to know the best places to surf, you can use Facebook Questions to get answers from nearby surfing enthusiasts. Because questions will also appear to your friends and their friends, you'll receive answers that are more personalized to you.

To ask a question to the community, just click the "Ask Question" button at the top of the homepage. You can also ask questions about your friends from their profiles, similarly to how you would post on their Walls.

I hope you can get answers to something a little more interesting (at least to me) then were to surf in Costa Rica. If it is a lot of hipster sort of questions like this then I am not interested. However, if you can ask something like "What is the best history book on Wiemar Germany and why?" and you get a decent answer then I will be using Facebook Answers all the time.

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