No you need not set your status as a question and get comments and take the pain of sorting out which is best.Using Facebook question you can create a question with options it is just posted to your friends news feed similar to that of a status update.
Facebook questions is also available for Facebook pages. Is this the end for Poll application we use to get users pulse?(eg: poll daddy) Facebook in its blog says that it boldly and gradually rolls out the new feature. Irony is that it allows the users to instantly upgrade their profiles with Facebook questions. You can do that HERE