If you’re an active member of a Facebook group and want to quickly but effectively collect some opinions or votes on a specific activity or decision, then consider this a sign to create your own survey.
The ‘Poll’ feature on Facebook is incredibly engaging, allowing users to set up a poll that others within the group can vote for. Whether looking for ideas or hoping to make a decision on behalf of the group, this is by far the easiest way to track votes and ensure a fair and balanced outcome.
What’s more, Facebook poll’s are incredibly easy to make!
5 Steps to Create a Poll / Survey on Facebook
- You must be in a group to create a survey or Poll on Facebook
- Click on the ‘Write Something’ post box
- Scroll down the content types and then select ‘Poll’
- Fill in the options and personalise the settings, then click ‘Done’ to enter the caption screen
- Write the question in the normal text box and then share your poll
Depending on the settings you added to your survey, users will be able to vote for more than one option or choose just one. They may also be able to add their own options if you have allowed this within the survey settings.
How to Use the Results
Once your survey starts to go quiet, you can compile the votes and share the final result in your group.
The beauty of this poll-style survey is that you can instantly see which options have collected the most votes by how high up they are in the options list and can also track which option was second most popular, and so on.
How you choose to use this feature will depend on the group and your role in it. However, we hope this helps you to engage in a little community spirit and start some conversations!
