Facebook’s new feature, Facebook Questions should add another interesting facet to an already feature-filled Facebook. Questions will allow users to get answers for questions from the entire Facebook community.

Very similar in design to Yahoo! Answers, Quora and Mahalo, Facebook Questions gives people the opportunity to ask any question any time. You can also write questions on people’s walls in a similar way you would post on someone’s wall.

Mashable author Ben Parr had the privilege of asking the Facebook Dev Team what the new features might entail.
Questions has several defining features:

• 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.

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• 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.

We are assured that Facebook Questions is not another advertising ploy by Facebook, but meant to be a legitimate tool for users. Facebook would like this to be used for actual utility and bringing the huge 500 million user base together.  Sounds great to us, how about you?

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