Are you looking for a solution to interact with your community in a fun way? Surveys are the ideal tool to animate your Facebook page and get precious information on your audience. You will discover in this tutorial different tips to create a Facebook survey. We also reveal some tips to make your questionnaire online more attractive and push Internet users to answer them.
Why does a Facebook survey?
The survey turns out to be a powerful tool to better know its community and generate engagement. Thanks to this tool, you can recover valuable information on the preferences, interests, and opinions of your subscribers.
But that's not all. The survey also makes it possible to create a feeling of belonging to a group. And as we know, this attachment is essential to maintain an active community. This is why so many content creators, brands, or influencers use this feature to interact with their audience.
How to do a Facebook survey
Online questionnaires represent a real opportunity to develop your activity on social networks. But to take advantage of this feature, you still need to know how to create a Facebook survey. The good news is that the implementation of a questionnaire requires no particular technical competence.
Restrictions imposed by Facebook
Before you start creating survey, you must take into account some important elements. First of all, you should know that the social platform limits the creation of surveys to certain well -defined areas.
Impossible for example to publish a questionnaire on the wall of his account. Facebook authorizes the creation of survey only in a story or on the wall of a group to which you are subscribed. And these restrictions are far from negligible.
In the case of a story, your questionnaire will be visible only by your friends. More boring, these money will only be able to respond to them during the lifespan of the publication, namely 24 hours. These limitations will undoubtedly affect the scope of your survey. You may receive a limited number of responses.
Regarding groups, Facebook offers greater flexibility of use. Indeed, contrary to what one might think, the creation of an online questionnaire is not reserved only for the administrators of the group. All the other members of this community have the opportunity to solicit the opinion of Internet users on a subject that is close to their hearts.
The creation of a survey in a group also offers the advantage of being able to reach a greater audience. But beware, the questions must respect the rules imposed by the community charter. Sometimes some subjects are not recommended or even prohibited. You must therefore take all these guidelines into account before creating your survey.
Create a survey in a Facebook story
Currently, creating a survey from a Facebook profile can only be done through a story. Also remember that the implementation of this type of questionnaire is impossible from a computer (Facebook web version).
If you want to create a survey in a Facebook story, you will have to use the mobile application of the social network. But that's not all, Facebook also requires a limited number of answers (no more than 2). In addition, like all stories, your survey will remain active for 24 hours.
- Launch the Facebook app on your smartphone
- Click on the house-shaped icon to open the App home page
- Press the Create a Story icon at the bottom of the screen
- Then scroll the different colored tiles at the top of the window
- Click on that entitled Survey
- Facebook will display a survey model
- Get the question you want to ask your subscribers
- This will automatically replace the pre -contiched text in your survey model
- Do not hesitate to add emojis to increase the visual impact of your question and to attract the attention of your subscribers
- Then click on the fields yes and no then enter your two answers
- Then press the finish or following button to finalize the creation of your survey
- Adjust the position of the text using your finger
- Press the round -shaped icon located to the right of the screen
- Choose the background of your choice
- Click on the magic wand icon to reveal the different graphic effects available on the application
- Click on one of the circles to change the appearance of the background image
- Once all the changes are completed, click the Bleu button Share in the story to put your survey online
As explained previously your questionnaire will remain accessible for 24 hours. Important detail, you can only consult the results of your survey once this time has elapsed. The data collected will be available in the archive section of your stories.
- Press the menu button (3 bunk lines) of your Facebook application placed at the bottom right of the window
- Click on your name then on the 3 small points icon (the latter is usually next to the Blue button Create a story)
- Select the archive option
- You should see all the stories published on account are displayed
- Click on the one containing your survey
Facebook then automatically compiles all the results. The number of response is presented in the form of percentage which greatly facilitates their reading. The platform will also provide you with the number of participants.
Create a Facebook survey in a group
The creation of a group on a group is done from both a smartphone and a computer. It's up to you to choose the support that suits you best. For this tutorial, we have made the decision to create the online questionnaire from the Facebook website.
- Launch your favorite web browser on your computer
- Connect to your Facebook account using your connection identifiers
- Click on the group icon in the right column
- Select the group in the list in which you want to publish your online questionnaire
- Then click on the form what do you mean
- This manipulation will trigger the opening of a pop-up window offering different options
- Press the Add button to your publication then on polls
- From this menu, you will be able to write your questions and personalize your answers.
- Click Express yourself to enter the subject of your survey.
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- Be concise, Internet users tend to zap the texts that are too long
- Then press the fields option 1, and option 2 to enter the different answers
- Click Add an option to add additional choices. This option is very useful in particular if you find that the number of predefined responses is not enough to cover all the opinions you want to collect
- Then press choice of response to allow internet users to check several responses (optional)
- Click Publish to put your survey online in your Facebook group