- Wondering how to delete a group on Facebook?
It's a bit of a hassle,
but I'll show you how to do it step by step in this video.
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My name is Jerry Potter.
Yes, it rhymes with the boy wizard.
And in this video,
I'm gonna show you how to delete a Facebook group,
but I gotta tell you upfront,
it is a massive hassle.
And so the alternative is to pause a Facebook group,
and I'll show you how to do that as well, okay?
So, first thing to know,
you have to be an admin on a Facebook group.
You can't be a moderator or any lower level access.
You have to be an admin to delete a Facebook group.
On that note,
don't let anybody be an admin for your Facebook group
unless you're okay with them deleting it
and taking it away from you.
Now, the terrible part about this process is
that you can't delete the group
until all the members are gone.
And that's why there's no
like just obvious delete group button
when you're looking for it.
So the way you would do it
is you would go to the members tab here in your group,
again, that you're an admin on.
And this is just a group as you can see
that only has two members in it.
So I'm gonna go through and take this member,
click on the three dots, and choose remove member.
It'll ask you if you want to block them
and different things like that.
You say confirm.
Now, there's only one member, me,
so I go here and then I say leave group.
It says, are you sure you want to leave the group?
Since you're the last member leaving now,
it will also delete this group.
And so you go through and you click delete group
if that's what you wanna do.
It reloads the page,
but if I click on anything, as you can see,
there is nothing available.
Now, if you've got a hundred
or thousands of members in your group,
like I have a group that had thousands of people in it,
there's no way I was gonna go through and do this,
you can also just pause your group,
which means that people can still visit it
and they can access any content,
they can search content,
but they can't request to join,
they can't comment or anything like that.
So to pause a group,
I'm gonna come over here on the right under the cover photo,
click the three dots, click pause group.
You'll need to say why you want to pause the group.
This is just feedback to Facebook.
You can click other if you don't have anything.
Hit continue.
Pausing it because there is a problem with it.
Hit continue.
And then they suggest you make an announcement
letting people know why the group is being paused.
Like, is this paused forever
or is it going to be reopened someday
the next time you do a promotion
or different things like that.
And if you want, you can even turn on this toggle down here
and choose a date and a time
that it will automatically resume.
So totally up to you.
When you're ready, hit pause group.
That group will be paused.
People can still visit it,
they can search it,
they can read, watch videos,
everything that's in the group
assuming they're already a member,
but you can't add anyone new
and they can't comment on it anymore.
So basically, it's just there as a database of information,
but it's no work for you as an admin.
Now, if you're feeling dangerous,
there are browser plugins and things like that
that supposedly will go through
and remove everybody from a Facebook group for you,
but you run the risk.
First of all, browser plugins can read all the stuff
that you type,
passwords and everything like that.
So you always run a risk there.
I've seen people who say, oh, this one's amazing,
and then 10 other people say, oh, it's terrible
and I think they stole my information.
And so that's why I avoid those.
That's why I prefer to just pause a group
than bother to use some unofficial tool
that Facebook hasn't approved
and that could steal my information.
Makes sense, right?
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