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Are you a member of a Facebook Group or an adminstrator of a Faceboobook Group? Then you are going to see some dramatic changes when you take a look at your Group this week (did you know there are currently over 45 million Facebook Groups?).
Until now, Group activities have been isolated to the group page. This week Facebook have made changes to Facebook Groups – changes are being rolled out across all groups over this week if you don’t see the changes yet.
In summary:
- Facebook Groups will now look similar to PagesFirst, we revamped the design for Groups so that they look similar to other pages and profiles with a Wall that summarises all the recent activities of people within the group and a Publisher that enables members to share their content.
- Facebook Group activities, which previously only appeared in the group, will now be delivered to your News Feed – you will see stories when one of your friends posts within a group rather than when all members post.
- You will be able to interact with Groups directly from the News Feed stories or make comments on these stories directly from your home page. You can choose to see only group-related stories on your home page by sorting by Groups from the filters on the left-hand side.
Facebook comments that while Groups and Pages now look the same, they still serve different purposes. Groups are for fostering member-to-member collaboration, while Pages remain the best way to broadcast messages to your fans if you are a business, organisation, public figure or other entity.
Facebook Groups historically have had a cap at 5,000 members – I’m not sure if that has changed or will change – what is clear is that Facebook is looking to make our content be that on Facebook pages or groups easy to access from our home page.
However the changes are not welcomed by many Facebook Group administrators or members who preferred the old version and many are asking for the option to stay with the old version of Facebook Groups.
If you are a member of a Facebook Group or an adminstrator for a Facebook page, what’s your thoughts on the changes?
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October 21st, 2009 at 6:54 am
Facebook Changes Groups To Build More Buzz On Your Home Page …: However the changes are not welcomed .. http://bit.ly/18sbhK #Social
October 21st, 2009 at 2:53 pm
my comments? well, I would have liked to have been notified by Facebook about this change- I saw some switching around a couple of weeks ago and wrote it off as a bug, but it looks like this is here to stay.
other than my control issues, I think it will be good to have more interactions similar to profile pages…but I am concerned about the discussion board/photos/videos being buried in tabs and smaller boxes on the page.
but, if it gets people in the group more connected I’m all for it!
thanks- Maureen BZ, Founder FB group “Metalsmiths Unite!”
October 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
interesting changes to facebook groups http://bit.ly/DfFRG
October 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
#facebook #socialmedia interesting changes to facebook groups http://bit.ly/DfFRG
October 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Facebook Changes Groups To Build More Buzz On Your Home Page http://bit.ly/3vV54I
October 21st, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Facebook Groups are Changing to more the look and feel pages. Check this out: http://bit.ly/DfFRG
October 21st, 2009 at 6:57 pm
RT @vaclassroom: Facebook Groups are Changing to more the look and feel pages. Check this out: http://bit.ly/DfFRG
October 21st, 2009 at 6:58 pm
RT @vaclassroom: Facebook Groups are Changing to more the look and feel pages. Check this out: http://bit.ly/DfFRG This is a good thing!
October 21st, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Facebook Changes Groups To Build More Buzz On Your Home Page http://bit.ly/MJOgt
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Facebook roolout all Groups gona change to the new Page look http://bit.ly/DfFRG
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Facebook Changes Groups To Build More Buzz On Your Home Page http://tinyurl.com/yggx7gw
October 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
[...] last week, news hit the streets that Facebook redesigned the look, feel, and features of GROUPS to more closely resemble Fan Pages and profiles, and is now allowing groups to post to news feed: [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Facebook is introducing changes to groups pages- admins may be interested to know: http://bit.ly/DfFRG