Hot answers tagged facebook-groups
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You must have a new-style group. Only old-style open groups (which cannot be created any more) can be joined without approval.
Previously, open Groups were similar to Pages and anyone could join. They were so similar that a lot of people were confused as to which they should use, and they would often complain because they created the wrong kind and would ...
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If you join a secret Facebook group your presence on the group is unknown and posts on the group are only visible to others in the group.
A closed group however only limits who can see the posts. Who is a member is public.
Either ask the group to switch to Secret or don't join.
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You can't prevent people from adding you to groups - you can only leave a group once added.
See this Facebook article
Can I prevent people from adding me to a new group?
The functionality of approving a group
membership is not available. Similar
to being tagged in a photo, you can
only be added to a group by one of
your friends. When a ...
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The group you are posting in must be a Closed Group.
Closed: For Closed groups, everyone on Facebook can see the group name
and members, but only group members can see posts in the group. Unless
you're added to the group by another member, you'll need to ask to
join. You'll become a member when your request is approved.
Stories from ...
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Facebook does not provide a way to have groups that anyone can join instantly. Someone already in the group must add them, or they can request approval from a group admin.
The likely reason for not providing this is that it would attract spammers. Old-style open groups had spam problems and they did not even have the new group notification or chat ...
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I use the same type of group for my Fraternity's page on Facebook. We need to let members know information that is going on, and some of which can't be seen by others (especially uninitiated members :D).
The following is a screenshot a setting under "Edit Group" (you can get to this by going to the group page, then clicking on the button at the top right of ...
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The group needs to be private (closed or secret), otherwise they publish updates.
Something you can do, which I know isn't ideal, is to delete from your time-line the publication of the group update. Of course, if one of your friends just refreshed his stream before you got a chance to delete it, they might see it but it's better than nothing.
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My friend left my group. How can I send a second invitation?
Unfortunately, you will not be able to send a second group invitation to the same friend. The person will have to request to join the group again.
That's from Facebook Help, so my best suggestion is to make it open (or even closed, since one can ask to join a closed group) and let this take ...
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Sorry, you cannot change the privacy setting to open if the group already has 250 members or more.
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=220336891328465
Unless all members agree it's generally disrespectful to make a group open that was previously secret, since some of the members may have never joined or posted content if they knew it would be visible to ...
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Go to the Group page
Click on Edit Group from the right
From the Privacy drop list, select Open
Click Save at the bottom of the page
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Facebook Help Center says:
Our system automatically deletes
groups once they're empty (no
members). If you created the group,
you can delete the group by removing
all members and then yourself. Note
that if you were not the first admin
and creator of this group, you will
not be able to delete the group unless
the group creator has left it
...
3
Check out the Groups directory which lists all public groups in alphabetical order.
Starts off on a high level grouping for each letter and keeps breaking down the levels. You may need to go through something like three levels of hierarchy before you find a group.
Don't know if there's a category version of this.
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It looks like this is currently somewhat broken.
If you go to an existing group (Aleph-One Strong for the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis!), then click on the category in the information, it takes you to a link which appears to be a search link (Outlandish Statements from the above group), but it gives you the message "Please enter a query." If you then ...
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You cannot turn on or turn off this feature yet. It seems come with the newest groups and is working it's way to older groups. Many people have been talking and annoying about that like this
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You'll have to ask the friend to request an invite back into the group. Once they leave, they burn the invitation from the first attempt and you can no longer add the same person.
My friend left my group. How can I send a second invitation?
Unfortunately, you will not be able to send a second group invitation to the same friend. The person will have ...
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You can access using Graph API. However you will need some access token with enough privileges to read the group stream.
e.g.: https://graph.facebook.com/<group_id>/feed?access_token=<access_token>
Sample output
{
"data": [
{
"id": "2204300302_10150259728120303",
"from": {
"name": "Tiana Ellis",
...
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Can also confirm that a direct link to the secret group does work! A re-request is submitted and an admin is required to approve the request to re-join. But it is NOT necessary to change the status of the group from secret to closed or open.
To obtain a working link go to group's home page and copy URL from the address bar—will look something like ...
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Depends on the setup.
Whether old Facebook group or new Facebook group.
With old it is pretty unlimited (there maybe some saturation that can be reached)
With the new since the default groups are closed then it is limited by the creator/moderator of the group. I know for at least one of the new groups I have joined, chat is broken after ~250 members.
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You should report the situation to Facebook as soon as possible.
See this page, which recommends
Report Abusive or Offensive Content
Tell us about any content that violates the Facebook Terms. The most efficient way to report abuse is to do it right where it occurs on Facebook, using the “Report” link near the post, profile or Page.
In most ...
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It's not possible to convert a page into a group or the reverse. Below is the quote from the Group -> Page help on Facebook and gives good advice on how to do it manually.
According to this Facebook Help
It is currently not possible to convert Facebook groups into Pages. We recommend that you create a Page and notify your group members about it. Note ...
1
I haven't tested this, but since the new lists feature, you are able to share your statuses with different groups of people.
When I share something, how do I choose who can see it?
Before you post, look at the audience selector. Use the dropdown menu to choose who you want to share a post with.
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Custom (Includes specific groups, friend ...
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If you are an admin of the group then change it to a Closed or Secret group, so that only group members will see the content. If you are not a group admin then ask the group admin to change it. If the group is Open then everyone can see all of the content, and Facebook may show it to your friends.
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Blocking is the only way you can truly not let someone see your comments.
I deleted my account and started a new one because I did not want to "block" any friends.
I selected a few dear friends and made a comment on a friend's thread. Others who I thought could no longer see and reply to my comments did and were able. Ugh. So, yes you might as well block! ...
1
If you comment on a page then that is public (except for any geographic or age restrictions set by the page admin) and even non-friends can see it. If you post on your wall/timeline then you control who can see it; if you post to Public then even those on your Restricted list will see it. If you write on another person's wall/timeline then they control who ...
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You can only send event invitations to friends and group members, not to everyone that likes your page. However, you can post the event on your page, so that it will appear in the News Feed of people that like your page. The post will have a Join link for them to RSVP to the event. If you want more exposure than that there is also the option of purchasing ...
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You can use a wallflux of your group: http://www.wallflux.com
Wall Flux, the tool which helps you to export Facebook Page and Group Walls to RSS 2.0 feeds.
Due to privacy settings, Wall Flux does not work out of the box for closed Facebook Groups. But with a small action from your side (adding us to your closed group) you can access the Wall ...
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Assuming that you are the admin,
Go to the group's page
Click on Edit Group from the right
Edit the Group Name at the middle of the page
Click Save at the bottom of the page
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The problem is that the trolls in your group have blocked the admins from seeing them, or their posts, and you can't ban someone from the group unless you can see them.
You have to be quick when you do the following, because, if the the trolls are smart, they will quickly block any new admin, but if you are quick, you can delete all trolls, and seal up the ...
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According to this source, it cannot be recovered and you'd have to create a new one.
If you'd like you can post this question on the Facebook Group Help page.
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Here is the complete answer as of April 2012:
As the group administrator, go to the group page.
From the group page, click the gear icon in the upper right corner (next to the search icon). This should drop down a menu; choose "Edit Group".
Change the group privacy setting from "Secret" to "Closed" and save the settings. (Note: this will notify everyone ...
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