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August 02, 2010
How To Poll Your Facebook Friends
By Dave Taylor
Facebook has introduced a new "Ask Question" feature. Can you give us a quick demo of how it works and offer some thoughts on how to best use it, Dave?

Dave's Answer:

In its quest to be all things to every user, Facebook has again tweaked its interface, adding a feature that Yahoo Answers has had for eons, that Google's experimented with variously, that's been part of LinkedIn for a while, and that's obviously near and dear to my heart with Ask Dave Taylor: the ability to ask your followers and fans a question.

On Facebook, it's called "Ask Question", ingeniously enough, and it's actually pretty neat how they've integrated it into the newsfeed and interface, though I'm sure not everyone agrees. Maybe we should ask them!

More seriously, I will also say that in the week or two since the feature was released, I haven't seen a single question show up in my news, so perhaps it's not getting the widespread adoption that the Facebook team were hoping?

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