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Facebook Discards the ‘Ask Question’ Feature

Dhwani Gandhi October 22, 2012

Whenever you log in to your Facebook account, on the top of the page you see a box that asks you “What’s on your mind?”. Right above that you will see Update Status and Add Photo/Video option.

What you won’t see is that there was an ‘Ask Question’ option right next to them.

Facebook 'Ask Question' Option

Questions, which was launched in July 2010 allowed users to create a custom poll that you can use to get feedback from your friends and their network as well. But unfortunately, it did not gain the expected traction.

Facebook Ask Question Poll

Failing to meet any reasonable success, Facebook decided to pull it down on October 20,2012. The possible reason can be that it is trying to bring up something more, like ‘Facebook Search’.

Though you may not be able to ask questions any more, you’ll be able to look at past questions that you’ve asked. But the good news is that the option to Ask Question will still be available on Facebook Groups and Pages.

Mark Zuckerberg gave a highlight about how Facebook search engine would look like in his Interview and it sounded something similar to Facebook Questions. However, Facebook Search unlike Facebook Questions will answer questions based on Likes and Activity instead of users participating by answering the Questions.

Dhwani Gandhi
By Dhwani Gandhi
A Blogger Passionate about Social Media and a Camera freak during free times. You can connect with me on Twitter at @dhwanigandhi17

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  • http://twitter.com/isomesh Somesh Khandalkar

    Most of my clients didn’t like this feature either. They said post a poll question but not via “question” feature, because the response was bad as compared to direct post. Also, I think many cell phone users couldn’t participate as the FB app didn’t accommodate this feature for them.

    • http://www.facebook.com/gandhi.dhwani Dhwani Gandhi

      Yes, may be because of the comparatively bad response, it did not attract many users and so ultimately Facebook must have decided to discard this Feature.

  • http://www.socialbirbal.in/ Amol Pomane

    We can use third part apps to ask questions anyway they are more featured and we can track them also

    • http://twitter.com/isomesh Somesh Khandalkar

      the problem with 3rd party apps (in this case) is that they takes interaction on another page (away from newsfeed). Also, as most people access FB via mobile so chances of a 3rd app getting good response is fairly low.

      • http://www.socialbirbal.in/ Amol Pomane

        Ya that’s true ,but now it will become more difficult to engage people more dynamically :) I used question feature to study about consumer behavior a lot ,Now I think only remaining option is “to use third party tools”