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Re: Facebook Group Limits, Do You Agree?

Justin Thorp — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:18:58 -0000

As I've written the past, I'm completely unhappy with Facebook Groups. I think they should be re-done completely. There should be some way to view what's going on in your groups in your news feed. This way groups become more hubs of activity and not badges of interest or ways to blast messages.

Re: Facebook Group Limits, Do You Agree?

compassioninpolitics — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:38:38 -0000

I can 100% identify with Baratunde. The limit is absurd.
I know of at least 2 non-profits havinging their profiles entirely deleted. Not only is 100s hour of work, data, and relationships are down the digital drain.

I worked from an arts organization in DC and had my identity and data killed. No warning. No you have 24 hours to rectify this. Or this is a warning. Gone. Deleted period. Its like having your blog erased or your thesis entirely wiped out.

Beth Kanter also details the same problem here with the National Wildlife Foundation. http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/09/more...

Re: Facebook Group Limits, Do You Agree?

acafourek — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:40:25 -0000

I totally agree...I am getting involved with the web strategy of a presidential campaign (to remain nameless as of now)...and we have a rather large facebook group and we are looking to create a college-focused website to build a brand off of the facebook group. However, most people are not active on their groups so when we launch the site, we expect a slow trickle of movement to the site, rather than the mass expansion we could get if we were allowed to send a message informing people of the new site.

It is certainly undermining the use of a group as a valid tool for 'group' based communications.

Re: Facebook Group Limits, Do You Agree?

bryan w — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:06:53 -0000

Ban groups over 1000? Seriously? Baratunde mentioned "apple students" has over 400,000 members in its group. Totally a pay to play move that may give some insight to, dare I say, a seedy underbelly of Facebook. Pretty effed up from a company thats building itself on openness. With millions and millions of users, doesn't 1000 users in a group seem a bit short sited?
The whole point is you JOIN a group. You see how many users are in the group. You can LEAVE the group if you don't like it or their messaging practices. Plain and simple.

Re: Facebook Group Limits, Do You Agree?

Tom Angell — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:12:30 -0000

I agree that this is a huge limitation (especially for groups like Students for Sensible Drug Policy who are trying to maintain contact with thousands of students on campuses across the country).

I think the solution is for FB to automatically include a footer with links in each message sent out through groups that allow folks to easily 1) remove themselves from the group or 2) stay in the group but unsubscribe from message notifications. This is how many orgs operate with e-mail blasts. Why can't FB implement a similarly simpe system with their messaging system?