Comments on: Facebook Groups: Privacy Blunder or Twitter Replacement

By: sekinj

sekinj — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:52:41 +0000

“He and Groups manager Justin Shaffer (who joined Facebook via the recent acquisition of his company Hot Potato) also noted that you can turn groups off; you can leave a group with a single click; and once you leave a group, you can’t be re-added to it without your permission.”

So, you can turn groups off??? HOW!!??! I cannot find this option ANYWHERE!!!

By: pranny

pranny — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:51:43 +0000

Alright guys, here it is. An application that will send you email digest from facebook groups. The app is called “Group Email Digest” and is available at http://digest.myblive.com or http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=106947259372688. The app shows you a list of groups you are a member of (new groups as well as old groups) and allows you to subscribe to one or more of them for daily email digest. This will keep your mailbox clean and updated.

By: dan tynan

dan tynan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:32:47 +0000

I’m on the blunder side of the equation. you can get the same benefits from these things simply by sending an invite inside of a “you have just joined a group you never heard of” notice.

for more, see http://www.itworld.com/internet/123516/whats-wrong-facebooks-group-grope

cheers,

By: cory shanes

cory shanes — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:48:38 +0000

I’m a huge fan of the new features, maybe its because I watched the entire keynote, and understand what the features are ment for and also what the preplanned solutions to some of these concerns are.

I’ve summered up and outlined the keynote, along with embedded a copy of the recording on my blog – http://the247entrepreneur.com/news/the-social-network/

What do YOU like the most about new groups? What Scares you the most?

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Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:02:17 +0000

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Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:05:53 +0000

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Facebook’s Privacy Policies « Samantha Platania's Blog — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:34:27 +0000

[...] feature. Now, users can tag friends in groups and it will automatically add them. Matthew Ingram points out that this is another example of Facebook making users opt out of settings rather then [...]

By: Greg Uhrlen

Greg Uhrlen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:41:46 +0000

While I like the ability to have small, private groups, the open add-in invitation policy in dangerous. For example, we are in the middle of some hotly contested elections in the United States. People could easily add pollsters, politicians, campaigners, etc. to Facebook groups that have nothing to do with their political affiliation, choice of religion or sexual orientation. Of course, these same problems apply to everyone else. The potential for litigation is endless unless these prviacy holes are corrected.

By: jkrowling

jkrowling — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:18:12 +0000

how does one “turn groups off”? this isn’t made clear here, and i can’t find it in the privacy settings anywhere.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:05:54 +0000

Kville’s idea is a good one. It’s my understanding that only your friends can add you automatically–more of a nuisance to me than a privacy violation. I have really kept my Facebook friends down in numbers to people I really, genuinely care about. It’s hard for me to imagine them adding me to a group I wouldn’t be interested in. I asked friends before adding them to the group that @ckanal started (the one @jenleereeves mentions in her post), and to Twitter friends, I just sent the link to add themselves.

Methinks whoever added Calacanis to the NAMBLA group doesn’t like him very much. He should browse through his Facebook friends to see if it’s time to do some defriending…