Facebook just launched a new feature that lets you create polls for your friends
Just weeks after acquiring tbh, a teen-centric 'polling' app, and adding polls to Instagram, Facebook is now borrowing the feature for its own app.
The social network added a new feature that allows you to create two-question polls your friends and followers can vote on in News Feed.
Rolling out now to the company's website and mobile app, Facebook's version of the feature is similar to Instagram's in that it also limits polls to two questions at the time. In addition, you can also upload photos or GIFs to go along with each option.
Importantly, the polls aren't anonymous, so if you vote in a poll, the person who created it and anyone else who votes in it will be able to view your answer. (PSA: Instagram's polls also aren't anonymous.)
Facebook has previously experimented with polling, but it's never had a consistent way to do run polls that worked for both Pages and regular accounts. Now, in the wake of its acquisition of tbh — a polling app that's been massively successful with teens — it looks like Facebook is willing to go all-in on the feature.
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