Answers Come to Facebook

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 6th, 2007 1:00 PM

Answers Icon Recently, answers has become a popular feature within social networks, specifically LinkedIn. Perhaps having answers is now a sign of a successful social network. Thanks to Adam Loving and T.A. McCann, answers has been brought to Facebook. Surprisingly this version of answers is relatively robust. There are over 35 categories, some of which seem redundant and some which are pretty random. Some of the categories include “coffee”, “iphone”, “cycling”, “india”, and “seattle”. This is a result of using tags as categories rather than predetermined categories. You can bet that this is going to result in an excessive amount of categories. Users get points for answering questions and receiving positive feedback, similar to Yahoo answers. While this application will need some future features, it is a great start! If you are in to asking questions or providing answers go grab the Answers application.

Comments (4 Responses)

T.A. McCann - June 8th, 2007 at 11:28 am

Nick,

Thanks for the post and kind words about Answers. We are excited to bring this type of functionality to the Facebook community since we have been advocating and providing community based Q&A for years at http://www.helpshare.com. We are hoping that you and other Facebook users will suggest more features that would be helpful here http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=254809213... and get lots of use out of the app.

We look forward to serving your answering needs.

T.A. McCann (Facebook Answers)

T.A. McCann - June 8th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

Nick,

We look forward to serving your answering needs.

T.A. McCann (Facebook Answers)

Adam Loving - November 5th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Somehow, I had missed this until just now. Thank you very much for the write-up!

- Adam

Adam Loving - November 5th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

Somehow, I had missed this until just now. Thank you very much for the write-up!

- Adam