Facebook Viewpoints - New Facebook application, paid survey participants

Recently, Facebook has officially launched a new market research application called Facebook Viewpoints. A special feature of this application is that participants in surveys, tasks, and research will be rewarded.

In this way, Facebook hopes to receive in-depth information directly from product users. Such information will be used to improve its products such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Portal and Oculus to benefit the broader community.

How Facebook Viewpoints works

When users set up a Facebook Viewpoint account, Facebook will invite you to participate in the program. Facebook will give you information on what information it will collect, what it will be used for, and how many points you will receive when completing the program. When certain points are reached, you will receive a payment deposited directly into your PayPal account.

Facebook's first survey is the 'Health Survey' to better understand the impact of social media like Facebook on people. Information from this survey will be used to build better products, enhance benefits and limit the negative impact of social media.

Privacy issues

When joining Facebook Viewpoints, users will need to provide information such as name, date of birth, gender, email address, country of residence. With separate programs, users may need to provide some additional information such as location .

Before any program, Facebook informs users how their information provided through that program will be used. If desired, the user can finish joining the program at any time.

Facebook says it will not sell users' information from the app to third parties, nor share its Facebook Viewpoints activity publicly or on linked accounts without the user's permission. use.

Currently the Facebook Viewpoints app is only available to Facebook users aged 18 and over in the US. In the near future, Facebook will expand this application to many other countries.

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