“What’s on ur Mind?”, Ask ur friends…

You want to try a new restaurant,  buy a new camera or planning for another holiday trip or simply want to read trust worthy news about recent Japan disaster. Who can suggest you the most reliable information?

Of course, your friends. And you find your friends in Facebook. So, 'millions of people ask their friends questions on Facebook every day' and they used to do as their status updates and get answers from their friends as comments. Not anymore, because Facebook launched the product Questions couple of days back to make 'questions easier and faster to answer'. The beauty now is that it’s not only your friends but also friends’ friends can answer and suggest you options.

“For more unusual questions, you can get advice a broader group of people, but to keep it most relevant we filter the answers to show you first what your friends think. You can see more responses by clicking ‘others’ within the question.”, Facebook published in their official blog post titled, “The Wisdom of Friends (and Others Too)”.

Like any other FB products it has been getting famous from the time of its release. Two hours after it got announced I wanted to try it and the picture of the top is the question that I asked my to friends.

The effect of Facebook Questions, I believe, will have a big move towards Social Shopping. While Facebook wants to be a hot bed for social commerce, this move would give its user a recommendation engine. Unlike Amazon, it won’t use sophisticated algorithm but the power(wisdom) of friends and their friends… 

This week TechCruch reported, “8thBridge, a company that helps retailers and brands bring shopping to Facebook, has raised $10 million in new funding led by Trident Capital, with Split Rock Partners participating in the round.” It is just a small instance to explain the trend.

Well, you may not agree with me. No problem! Go to Facebook and ask a question. You will realise as you harness its power .

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