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I left Facebook after their feature rollout at the beginning of the summer, so I can't check these things for myself. Do you really not receive notification wh

by jfager 16y ago

I left Facebook after their feature rollout at the beginning of the summer, so I can't check these things for myself. Do you really not receive notification when someone adds you to a group? If not, how is it easy to leave, given that you may not even know you're a member? And is there any way to know who added you, so that if someone keeps doing this to you, you'll know you need to tell them to stop or unfriend them?

NZ_Matt 16y ago
Keep in mind that these "groups" are different from the previous version of groups that facebook use to have. You get a notification when added to a group and can easily leave with one click. Groups are private by default which means that nobody outside of the group can see your private groups or any of the content. This has made facebook a lot more interesting for me. Essentially it's a great way to have private discussions between my close group of friends without broadcasting to all my "friends". The facebook blog has a video overview: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434700832130 http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434700832130
- jfager 16y ago
  You get a notification when added to a group Any thoughts, then, on what Calacanis meant when he said "I was never informed that I was 'force-joined' to the NABLA group."? Was he just mistaken? Groups are private by default Okay, that's fine. But who controls if or when that group is made public? And can you still be "force joined" to non-private groups?
  - jwegan 16y ago
    My guess is Calacanis gets lots of notifications and he probably just missed it. The group creator controls when the group is made public, and given Facebook's track record, you should probably assume anything you write in Facebook (except private messages) may eventually be public. Also I believe you can be "force joined" to non-private groups.

by jfager 16y ago

NZ_Matt 16y ago

Keep in mind that these "groups" are different from the previous version of groups that facebook use to have. You get a notification when added to a group and can easily leave with one click. Groups are private by default which means that nobody outside of the group can see your private groups or any of the content. This has made facebook a lot more interesting for me. Essentially it's a great way to have private discussions between my close group of friends without broadcasting to all my "friends". The facebook blog has a video overview: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434700832130 http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434700832130

jfager 16y ago
You get a notification when added to a group Any thoughts, then, on what Calacanis meant when he said "I was never informed that I was 'force-joined' to the NABLA group."? Was he just mistaken? Groups are private by default Okay, that's fine. But who controls if or when that group is made public? And can you still be "force joined" to non-private groups?
- jwegan 16y ago
  My guess is Calacanis gets lots of notifications and he probably just missed it. The group creator controls when the group is made public, and given Facebook's track record, you should probably assume anything you write in Facebook (except private messages) may eventually be public. Also I believe you can be "force joined" to non-private groups.