Category: Social Networking
Does anyone else enjoy using the groups on facebook? They're probably where I spend most of my time when on FB, and I was somewhat addicted to joining new ones for a while. I think I'm at aroung 150, ranging from random chat groups, to Wiccan and Pagan-related ones, to Disney fan groups, to groups on 80's pop culture, and a few random ones.
I would join some groups if I could find ones that had interesting donversations going on. The groups that looked interesting turned out to have people sharing photos or quotations of various sorts. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It's just not what I'm looking for. Though I'll probably look into groups at some later stage.
What kinds of groups are you interested in?
A few general discussion groups for a start. It's a pity facebook doesn't put its groups into categories. Then a person could look through groups in that way, instead of the search field.
ya, i never like to miss some discussions on some groups.
I am in around 30 groups which involve knowledge sharing, compitative exams preparation, college groups, tech discussions and some more.
Some visually impaired in india have also formed some groups.
I also enjoy google groups which are divided into catogaries.
I have one. it's okay I guess. I opened a writing critiquing workshop one. I am in a few fairly inactive ones. I was in this great active ones. until I got kicked out just because I was not prolife. And I said something pro-choice. was also called a liberal. had a good laugh. the owner was a kid anyway.
Hi everyone,
I'm in a fair number of groups on a wide range of subjects. You can find groups on a variety of subjects almost beyond imagination. In the last year foudn suggestions due to a group I was already in RE shortwave radio and although I had none of my FB friends in those groups as far as I know I was accepted though only commented once so far but do on and off contribute to others such as groups relating to the school I went to and VI based groups too (and many others besides). BTW FB groups changed how they worked about 2 years ago now, they used to have many different options but they simplified how they work, though at first I was saddened by this change but grown to like that they did change them though it did mean I was kicked out of groups that weren't transferred to the new way of working, but that was a blessing as used to be in too many due to been niaive in my early days on #FB as there used to be a limit in the number of groups you could join mahybe there still is, then they increasedd it by 50% before within months of that they re-launched groups on Facebook and my number of groups shrunk dramatically due to the changes though have joined myself or bene invited to quite few since but although still rather too many it is not as high as was before the FB group system changed thank goodness and have started to be careful or mindful about which groups I join nowadays.
It does mean FB groups take up most of my notifications, so apart from groups (apart from a very rare and seldom other interesting notification excluding messages or requests) nothing else is interesting on FB now even literally in the last week started to use FB much less due to finding it much less interesting overall and very busy though a quieter week coming up maybe I'll be tempted back time will tell smile, and any now that I have a mobile I can keep up on inportant things particularly messages via my phone or be notified of other important things if they come up!:))
Kind regards,
Timber AKA User #7902
Is there a way to be part of FB groups without your friends seeing that you posted to the group?
I'm pretty cautious with some of what I do on Fakebook for just that reason. Plenty of atheists have had run-ins with religious family who got upset, because of what they saw on Fakebook. Groups looks like a good way to communicate on single-interest stuff: I do that with my birding hobby. But some interests are better controlled from certain people.
Hi again,
groups on Facebook can be set to be one of three options:
Open - which I think means everyone can see what's going on and search for a group with no restrictions whatsoever, thus they can read the posts even if not a member but of course not comment/join in.
Closed - which can't but you can still search for a group and send an invite to the modirators for approval.
And the highest setting being secret, which you have to be known to be invited or to contact someone in the group as it won't appear in the search results.
Now I realise this isnt' what you were asking as such, but I'm struggling to recall but asume if 'secret' your friends would still be able to see under the log on one's timeline your messages to a particular group though even if open they wouldn't be able to comment (apart from separately on your timeline or as a message to you personally) in the group unless they were also in it. I have the feeling these settings are relating to FB users one isn't friends with not your own contacts. Perhaps I'm wrong about this so if anyone knows please put me right.
Funnily enough I joined one or two groups myyself which, and afterwards wished people didn't see what I post, nothing untoward, just not the sort of thing I wanted friends to see and one of them did notice as he mentionned it and tried to join the group afterwards but I was so shy I didn't get around to responding.
Kind regards,
Timber AKA Timothy Bamber User #7902
Hi,
Speaking about joining the group, I like to join the group that discussing about technologies thing. And re: timber: you are right the group has three options. For the first group created, I'd recommend keep it open. when you have about 100 members or so, you can change it from open to closed.
Socheat
So maybe I will just stay away from Facebook groups then.
It sounds like peple in their news feeds will see that I posted in a group called Center for Rational Inquiry, or Atheists Etc., or something. Those are trigger words for people of a particularly fundamentalist persuasion, and I realized the hard way on Facebook that I neede to be careful.
Let me see if I can explain this right, if you join a group none of your friends on your friend list will see what you post unless they are in that group. It is safer to join a closed group. You can also adjust the settings in the group so they won't send you notifications everytime there is a post in that group. If you comment on a post, you can choose to select "stop following post" maybe not in those very words but it will say something like that.
Thanks for your explanation.
Hello everyone,
Perhaps I should start a new topic within 'Social Networks' so apologies as tacking it along to this one instead.
In the last week or two and again I stress not sure if this has started happening on the FB Mobile website, but I can only partially read my Facebook Groups' timelines.
Crucially is the page comes to an end before the messages to the groups which means I cannot read their new posts.
So the simple (I hope) question is this:-
Has anyone else experienced this, it only came about for me at maximum two weeks ago now and it is very frustrating, it is like being able to read the outside of an E-Mail without being able to read the E-Mail content itself.
Kind regards & many thanks in advance,
Timber AKA Timothy Bamber User #7902
Hi Timber, I rarely use the mobile ap because it is always changing. Check out www.applevis.com and see if they have an answer.
One thing I've noticed about groups is that, if you're in an open group and you start a new topic in that group, your friends who aren't even in that group can see it. If it's a closed group, then only the people in that group can see. Hope that makes sense.
Hi all.
I'm a big user of facebook groups. I am a member of over 40 groups, two of which I created and manage.
hi all, I got a question. how could I acces the chat on the facebook group? I can only access chat on my contacts and can't chat with the people on the groups
I have not been active onthe any facebook groups in quite a while now. No one appears to take much interest in the groups I either own or happen to join.