As Facebook has rolled out their new Facebook Questions product – they have altered the core “news feed” posting tool.

Perhaps it is an effort to drive traffic to Questions by placing it “in the river” …
Or perhaps it is the natural expansion of “content types”: status, questions, photos, and links.

But it is a marked changed in posting behavior: users have to explicitly define the content type:

The striking experience for me was when I posted a link within the status update and it behaved differently: the link is no longer recognized (automatically grabbing the link, imagery and snippet). To share a link with commentary, you now must explicitly click “post link”:

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