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Facebook has announced the release of a new service, called Questions, that lets you ask questions to the Facebook community and receive answers from your friends, their friends, and the larger community. It will work similar to Quora, but with some additional enhancements. Don’t know about Quora, check out this blog post from Jeff Hilimire.

According to Ben Parr’s post on Mashable, Facebook Questions will have the following features:

• Photo questions:  For example, if you take a picture of a bird, but don’t know what species it is, you can post the picture on Facebook Questions to get an answer.

• Polling:  If you’re looking for the answer to a question like “Which is better: Coke or Pepsi?”- you can get an answer by creating a poll.

• Tagging:  You can tag questions based on a certain category/topic, which will make it easier/faster to look up questions and answers on topics such as cooking, photography, travel, etc.

• Topic exploration:  This feature will allow users to browse Facebook’s full library of Q&A.

• Following:  You can follow specific questions for updates and new answers.

Facebook Questions will roll out to a limited group of beta testers today and will be rolled out to the rest of the masses in the future.

What are your thoughts about this new Questions service from Facebook? Would you use it?