5
Facebook Groups showing up in News Feed (Facebook Privacy Issue)
Updated 8/09/2011
After the recent transition of old Facebook groups to a new format, Facebook opened a new privacy issue by allowing group stories to show up in news feeds. Previously, Groups were controlled as a separate application, allowing you to control who could see what groups you were in and the posts you made from it. This privacy setting was slightly buried among the mass of other Facebook applications, but at least the option was there.
In the new group format, if you post a status in any of the new OPEN groups that you are in, this will show up on all your friends’ news feed. This shows up even if they do not belong to the group you are in. Certainly it can cause trouble if you are in a particular group that you don’t want others to see. On the flip side, your friends may see a multitude of group stories in which they have no interest in.
One guy I know posted to an Open Group about 8 times in one hour last night. He has 744 friends. I just politely let him know that all of those new Wall Posts he is starting on that Group wall are showing up on all 744 of his friends’ walls. Haven’t seen anything from him since.
This feature appears to be triggered to those only in OPEN groups. CORRECTION: The person must create their own status, publish a photo, or write a doc for it to show up. In addition if the person comments on their own entry, it will also show up in the news feed INCLUDING non friend’s status messages. Which means your entire friends list will see comments you made regardless of who or what posted it.
If someone adds you to an OPEN group, it is also displayed on the news feed.
If another person makes a status in a group and you comment on it, this will not show up on the news feed.
.
We suggest Facebook should allow privacy option within group posts, to make everyone or only group members see. This privacy option can be set up similar to the way how statuses are made on a regular profile.
3 Comments to “Facebook Groups showing up in News Feed (Facebook Privacy Issue)”
Leave a comment
Recent Posts
Popular Posts
- Deleting an AIM or AOL Screen Name Account
- Facebook Groups showing up in News Feed (Facebook Privacy Issue)
- What is AOL Lifestream? How to Use it or Remove it?
- The Sims 3: Stuck with Low Moods; Miserable after Latest Patch Workaround
- The Sims 3: The Road to Sunset Valley
- Stop Quicktime from Playing Mp3 In Internet Explorer
- How to Connect and Sync Facebook with AIM
And this is an issue because?
Because when you have two facebook profiles you obviously want people to see some things while other people not see other things.
It’s an issue for me primarily regarding flooding as the article states. I would not want to be flooded by my friends group posts that i have no interest in, and likewise i would rather not flood all my friends feed with my posts to particular groups I have interest in while they may not be interested in.