One of the things about Facebook groups is that the most current recently posted
topic goes to the top of the page and it's not always easy to go straight to
the content you want to see. But that's been changed by Facebook introducing the
add topics feature. I'll show you how that works now within the new group both
with the classic interface and also with the brand new 2020 version. Here we go.
The first thing to know is that topics are not always universally available to
each new group on Facebook. It's a strange thing but I've seen users
complain that they can't get the feature or even stranger they have the add
topics feature and then it disappears for a period of time and then it's restored so
this is assuming that you have the add topics feature and you have something
like this so you can see the popular topics in posts which ones have had the
most displayed so nine different ones displayed on screen now and you can
click manage and you can go in to search for particular topics or actually go
through the ones you wanted to see. So if I was to go through to any one of these
categories so for example see all the posts about Facebook click on Facebook
I'll see a full list in the order in which are the most
recent first of that particular topic.So you're linked in the same way I see a
completely different set of results just for my particular interest. So if we go
through previous discussions I can see here for example this one's been given
the topic your questions you can edit whatever topic is selected we go to this one
a edit post topic you can change that to welcome
and I think you can only assign one topic to each post at the moment but
that seems to vary over time so watch your space. In terms of the 2020 version
of Facebook if you go to the drop down here and I'll just switch it to the new
Facebook view if you like. You can't instantly see the topics displayed there
but if you scroll down a bit you can and you'll see over here on the left-hand
side you could also go to post topics
and again a similar search tool there under the post topics you can actually
select to display by newest first. If you wanted to or popularity just the view
you saw before even alphabetical. Now if there's some recent topics are suddenly
unavailable it may be worth checking especially if we've already had them
running previously to go back to settings and this is under edit group
settings and there's an option a little checkbox that says post topics so if
that's disabled then just click on it and we enable it and finally be aware
that there are other ways to organize your content as well as units where you
can put them into learning units group together announcements where you can
have certain key posts that are always visible at the top of the page rather
than just the latest discussion items being there. So here are some examples of
typical announcements on the page and
and yes just finally just look at the way you can view it is the same on the
classic interface as well so really despite ithe change of updated Facebook
for some users the functionality of add topics remains the same in 2020. It's a
great thing if you can be able to add at least one topic per post but if not it
may be possible to re-enable it at some stage anyway and there are other
features like the units and announcements that can enable you to do
a similar kind of thing so hopefully that's been helpful I'm Paul from PR
Wilson media your social media personal trainer Cheers