Facebook groups

I’m thinking about creating a group on Facebook. My understanding of how it works is: if group member X posts to a group, that post will show up on the news feeds of other group members, as long as those other group members are also friends with X. The post will not show up on group members’ news feeds if they are not friends with X.

I’ve looked through all of their help pages, and some community help pages as well, but either I can’t find or I’ve missed the answer to this:

As the group’s creator, when I post something to the group, will it show up in all members’ news feeds, whether I am friends with them or not?

I’m not going to dispute your claim, but it seems really stupid that you would only get comments from your friends in the first place. I signed up for the group for a reason.

What I do know that most groups I use apparently have a way to send a new message to all subscribers, and that is how they send out announcements that need to go to everybody, and not just people who happen to look at the group page.

Also, any message will go to the Updates part of your Inbox, but I don’t think you get warned for that.

Yes, as the “administrator” for the Group, your posts will show up on anyone’s wall, that joined your group. The posts will be from the Group, not from you as an individual.

Take a look at the differences between groups and pages - as I understand it, groups are better for “inward focused” communication (i.e. communication is mostly via message which is private) while pages are more “outward focused” (i.e. changes and updates appear on fans walls and are therefore visible to their friends as well.

Are you sure about the second part? Everything I’ve read in the community help forums seems to indicate that posts will always be from the individual. This is one of my reasons for wanting to create a group rather than a page.

Yes, I’m aware of the differences, and I think a group would better serve my needs - as long as I can be assured that when I post to the group it will show up in all members’ news feeds.

Missed the edit window… I just checked a couple of groups I am a member of, and posts by the creator show up as the individual, not the group. I can’t recall if these posts showed up in my news feed, though.