Great Facebook Survey and Note Repositories
Surveys and quizzes on Facebook can be a great way for you to learn about your friends in fun and inviting ways. Surveys can range from light and fun to serious and challenging. When writing or taking a survey on Facebook, remember two things. First, if you create a survey, you are more likely to get people to participate if you answer the questions yourself. It shows openness and a willingness to share. Second, if you haven’t created a specific friends group or set the privacy settings accordingly, anything that is post will be public knowledge. Thus, be extremely careful with any survey that asks personal, embarrassing, or potentially incriminating questions.
There is one more thing to be aware of concerning surveys. There is a 500 character limit on status updates, so surveys often need to be posted as notes. You can add tags to make sure certain friends see the notes, but they will also show up on your wall. You might put a short message to friends letting them know that they need to click on the title of the note to go to the full version.
Hold Old Were You…
This is a nice, simple survey that you can use to get to know friends and family. Of course, they may not be truthful in the answers, so you should have someone close to them fact check their responses to see if they are telling the truth. It might be fun to add in a comical punishment for anyone caught cheating on this quiz. For example, they have to wear a clown nose for a whole day.
The Vacation Quiz
This one if fun because you not only get to know friends, you also get to see what they think about you and some of your other friends. This questionnaire uses a fictional vacation that friends have to narrate, which can produce some hilarious results.
The Random Note
Notes don’t have to be 100% serious. They are for entertainment after all. In this following note is really fun, especially if friends are reading it and filling it out on their mobile phones. In fact, it could become a sort of scavenger hunt where you tell friends they need to be on their mobile phones to play this and then you could all go to the mall or the zoo or somewhere completely off the wall and play this game.
The Cell Phone Quiz
This is another frivolous survey, though it might tell you a great deal about your friends like what kind of music they are in to, who they are friends with, and how popular they are. This is a survey that you should fill out as well, that way everyone will have a great time. Tag your friends in the quiz once you’ve finished so they can read your answers and make sure they tag you and other friends as well. Tagging is the best way to get quizzes to spread fast.
The Boredom Quiz
Because everyone gets bored from time to time, this quiz is a great way to interrupt the mundane flow of the day. It may even spark an awesome Facebook conversation or pique your creativity enough to get you thinking of other fun things to do.
Conclusion
Surveys are interesting because you can fill them out and then tag a friend (or several) to read your answers and also to fill out the same survey. They can then tag more friends and the survey will act much like a chain status update or chain mail. It can be a way to get to know a lot of friends in a short period of time. Surveys also have the potential to make your profile interesting. If friends know they can find a fun, interesting, revealing survey on your profile, they may make it a habit to visit often. This is a great idea if you need views for any reason.
Of course, the above surveys are just ideas to get you started. The best surveys will be those that you come up with yourself. You never know if a survey you create could go viral on Facebook and earn you your 15 minutes of fame!
