What is a Facebook Group?

July 2, 2009

Groups are not alien to the world of social networking as it has been there on the Internet from its inception. The concept of groups was introduced with UseNet news groups and the concept has gone through a few makeovers during the past couple of decades.

When it comes to Facebook groups, you can create groups for almost anything. One can use Facebook groups for serious discussions, sharing content, advices, and media etc. There are a few restrictions imposed by Facebook on groups such as the motives for forming a group. As an example, forming a group for discussing about manufacturing bombs will be illegal.

When you create a Facebook group, you become the administrator of the group. Then you can assign more administrators to the group, so the group can be effectively managed. As the administrator of the group, you can define the restrictions for the group such as the visibility to all Facebook users, visibility only to the invited users etc. However, Facebook groups are never visible to non-Facebook users.

Facebook users can join the groups and this action should be approved by the administrator(s) of the group. Once joined, users can post comments on the Wall or post messages in discussion forums where threaded messages are allowed. The administrator of the group can broadcast messages to all users of the group and the message will end up in the Inbox of the users. Therefore, these messages attract a lot of attention.

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Marta Adan July 25, 2009 at 12:28 pm

somebody send to my email a information in facebook can I get information about the families I looking for my relatives in Valencia ,Spain he give this web http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3503507741&ref=search, Im really I can find this web, please can you help me because I don’t use this facebook to much

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