Likes UP: Facebook Groups Suggest Friends Feature

Likes UP: Facebook Groups Suggest Friends Feature

You may be in a group on Facebook, or you may have requested to join a group or you may have been added to a group on Facebook.

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The default group set-up is to display individual photos of group members.  The most active people who comment and make posts show up in the 8 images.  The most recent “poster” or “commenter” usually shows up right in the middle of the header photos.

Groups are the rage on Facebook and Facebook is doing everything to keep you engaged in their platform with all your interests.  Interest lists work like groups with suggestions to add friends.  In groups there is now a dialog box on the right side for “suggested members”

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Mari Smith wrote in one group: Amazing all the changes made to groups lately — I see our montage of individual profile photos now displaying clearly, not blurred out… and a slightly bigger. Plus, more organized with the ‘tabs’ as you all probably noticed (about, events, photos, docs under group montage and search to the far right).

Perhaps this is Facebook gearing up to “go back to its roots” with Groups for schools!! It’s all still in beta just now, but Facebook will probably begin pushing these Groups for schools BIG time once they are fully launched. The part that most people are not comfortable with, is just like the regular groups, you can get added to groups without your permission.

Another comment: We’ve come full circle! I remember when FB first rolled out the option to add a secondary email other than a .edu one to your profile – it was a huge deal at the time. Glad to see the school groups returning.   Not sure that involuntarily being added to a group is the way to go about it.

The group administrator can choose to use a header image like the one below. Yes, there is a group on Facebook called “I Love Google Plus.”  That’s where everyone is sharing their link on Google Plus.

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What do you think about being added to a Facebook group without your consent?

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