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A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

By Emil Protalinski March 29, 2011, 9:38 PM PDT

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A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

Facebook Questions has relaunched as a limited public beta. The limited means it is meant to spread through your personal network: when your Facebook friend asks a question, you can start using the service. The “public” part means that you can bypass that by simply clicking on the green Go to Questions button.n

See Emil Protalinsks’s report, Facebook Questions relaunched as limited public beta.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntYou’re in! After you click on the green button, the text under it will change from “We’ll be rolling out Questions to everyone soon, but you can upgrade your account now.” to “Your account is already enabled for Questions.”

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntWhen you click Okay, you will be redirected to the main Questions page. Here’s what it looks like if you have no friends.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntHere’s what it looks like when you do have friends: the page will be full of questions answered by users on Facebook, sorted chronologically. The questions that your friends posed and/or answered are given a higher priority.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntIf you highlight one of the answers, you will be told the exact number of votes it has received. More importantly, you can highlight the … part on the right to see which of your friends voted for what answer.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntAt the top of the page, click on the Question button to pose your own question.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

nt Write your own question and your own poll options. The “Allow anyone to add options” checkbox is checked by default but you can uncheck it if you want users to be limited to your options.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntNotice that possible poll options can be Facebook content. When you start typing, Facebook gives you a list of possible pages you may want to link to.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntWhen you hit the blue Ask Question button, you will be prompted with this warning.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

ntHere’s the final result. It appears on your friend’s News Feed instantly.

A quick hands-on with Facebook Questions beta

Here’s how it looks like on your Facebook Wall.n

See Emil Protalinsks’s report, Facebook Questions relaunched as limited public beta.

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