Get Answers at Facebook Questions

Facebook has introduced a new feature - Facebook Questions, that allows user to post questions and get answers from the entire Facebook Community. This feature is similar to Yahoo Answers, Answers.com and Mahalo. Currently, Facebook Questions is being made available only to a few beta testers who are providing feedback. It isn't sure when this feature would be made available to all users. 

Just like you can post an update in your Facebook timeline, you can ask any question and get answers from the swarm of over 500 million Facebook users. However, it should be noted that Facebook Questions is an application that needs to be added in order to use it. You can ask about anything - from details on ice cream parlors to book stores, from food joints to parks. As per the description on the official Facebook blog, anyone from the Facebook Community can answer the question. Thus, we hope that the activity for that question remains in a separate tab. If it gets into the regular Activity News Timeline, then we hope it comes with 'Hide' Option.

Once the 'Ask Question' question tab appears next to Update Status tab, you can post your questions anytime. As of now, we don't know how and where the 'Ask Question' tab will appear in the mobile web interface of the service. You can also post questions on your friends and contact's wall just like you post regular text and links. 

Here is a list of distinct features of Facebook Questions. Users can

• Post photos in Photo Questions
• Create Polls
• Add meaningful tags so that it is easily discovered and quickly answered
• Stay updated with updates and answers by following the questions
• Explore the topics by different topics view options - like all questions, category-wise, etc.

Do note that the questions you post are visible to everyone over the Internet so you better don's post obscene and profane questions. In a way, this feature can be a good knowledge source tool but it also involves a high risk of getting more spam added to the Interwebs. 

All you have to do now is to wait till some morning Facebook will start rolling out Facebook Questions feature.