Now if you manage your own Facebook group
there's a lot of settings that you can put in place
to make sure you restrict who's allowed to post
they all understand the rules and who can join
who can be added to the group. i'll take you through how those work
in this video. Here we go. Okay so essentially you go to
more and you select edit group settings and that brings you to
the screen we just saw there, and you've got the group name
group type so you've got choice of types.
Could be one of these categories social learning is a new one where units can be
brought in to help train people buying and sell
groups are very popular work related groups are there as
well but i'm going to go with general for now
so stick with that. Got a description for the group
important you can have that listed there various tags that can link with a group
there are some apps you could actually add
if you built those into the group you got colours. The privacy is an important one obviously
you have a choice of public or private. Now do note that once you change to a
private group it's now in the new 2020 regulations
pretty much impossible to reconvert it to public so
you need to be very clear when you go into private
if you want to cut it off at that point and just say only the members can see
who's in the group etc it's not going to go back to being
public beyond that point soI think it's a big C change in the way
Facebook operate groups now it could be one or
the other but don't try and change between the two
because you'll come unstuck you won't be able to go
private back to public so that's a big decision there.
You have various badges you can encourage people to find the group how easy it is
to find and that obviously depends on whether
it's public or private and membership approval so who gets that
ultimate call is it just the admins or can people
within the group approve and you can even pre-approve certain
people. And i like this one the questions
where you can ask certain questions to someone who wants to join. So i've got
some related to social media
and i've chosen i can now actually choose to include the
group rules as part of that process as well. So let's
have a look at those options seen in the viewpoint of new Facebook so
2020 version
So here you've got all the options now listed down on the left hand side
you've got various things like group rules etc
Now this time there isn't really an edit group settings
area you can select
but there is automatically all the admin tools listed
down the left hand side so we've got one section for automatic member
approvals one section for membership questions
and now we're looking for settings of the group you've got privacy
public hide group you can turn that on or off
the group type who could join a group so under manage membership
you can select that
It's letting people and pages because previously you could only join as a
person but now you can join us both. So you can restrict it to
just people if you want who can approve membership again
friends in the group. So very similar options but
presented in a different way it's all down the left-hand side
there's probably quite a lot more content in terms of the
admin area and what you can look at you've got things like
group quality is a fairly new
idea so you have standards that you can
have maintained and Facebook will actually work with you to help
maintain the quality of the group. So that's it for me
those are the group settings in 2020 I'm Paul from PRwilson media your social
media personal trainer cheers