If you’re on Facebook, there’s a good chance that you’re also part of a Facebook group. This group can be for just about anything, whether it be a group you created for you and your friends to share silly things without it being made public on your wall, whether it be about a group of local car enthusiasts, and so on.
Now we know that Facebook does see the value in groups which is why they launched a dedicated Groups app a while ago, although it seems that maybe it wasn’t popular enough to warrant keeping it around. However it seems that Facebook’s Group efforts are still going strong as the company has recently announced a bunch of new features.
According to Facebook, these new features include the ability for admins of groups to welcome new members by tagging them automatically. There is also the addition of badges that allow members of a group to identify group leaders and other members, and there will also be member profiles so that users in a group can get to know each other a little better without opening up their actual Facebook profile, which some users might prefer to keep private.
There are also a bunch of new controls for admits and Group Insight tools that will allow admins to schedule posts when members are the most engaged, and so on. So if you’re an avid Facebook Groups user or if maybe you lead a group yourself, then hopefully these new features will help keep things more interesting moving forwards.
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