Facebook announces launch of new quiz service

Recently, Facebook announced the launch of a new version of the quiz service "Questions". The new questions is almost completely different from the previous version, and will no longer be a threat to the Quora site.

Facebook launched the questions last July, and industry insiders were bullish on Facebook's new service. Facebook already had 500 million users, so the service could replace the massive Yahoo answers. In addition, the service will be directly competing with the Quora, the former CTO of Facebook, Adam De Anglo Adam D ' Angelo. However, Facebook has been restricting users ' use of questions, with rumours that questions has not attracted enough users.

The new questions service contracted the target. Users will not issue questions to the entire Facebook community, but they are more in line with Facebook's "social" features. When a user raises a question, a structured vote will appear in the buddy's dynamic, and friends will be able to vote on different answers or add their own answers. Therefore, the industry believes that the new version of questions perhaps more should be called "Facebook vote."

For example, when a user asks a friend about a favorite restaurant in San Francisco, the user can advance several restaurants as a candidate. The user's friends can vote for these candidates, or they can add the restaurants that are not in the list. When friends vote, the results will appear in the dynamic of friends ' friends. In other words, the problem that the user raises will implement the virus spread. Replies from user Friends will be highlighted, but many responses from strangers will be received if the user raises a lot of concerns.

Unlike the old version of questions, users can't browse the problem by topic, but only see the problem in their own buddy's dynamic. This is a huge adjustment, meaning that questions's goal is not to become a huge repository of similar quora. Instead, the service is just a suggestion to help users get their friends.

Adrian Graham Adrian Graham, the Facebook product manager, said the adjustment reflected the way users used the old version of questions. Typically, users simply ask their friends questions. However, some strangers have a long response, which causes the user's friends to not reply. The new questions will solve the problem.