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- The change is part of an ongoing effort to improve group safety, through features like giving admins more moderation tools and members the option to see the group’s history and preview its content before accepting or declining an invitation.
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Aug 14, 2019 · Today, we are updating the names of group privacy levels to public and private to make it easier for you and your members to understand. Admins will also see a new setting where you can control whether your group is visible or hidden from nonmembers in places like search.
Go to facebook.com/groups and select your group. Click Group settings in the left menu. You might have to click Manage first. Below Set up group, click next to Privacy. Select Private. Follow the prompts. Click Change privacy to confirm.
Several Facebook groups I have been part of have been changing their privacy settings to secret. I have no clue why. This is clearly a voluntary action and not some automated Facebook thing as the notification names admins who initiated the action to change it to secret as well.
May 5, 2020 · Facebook is updating its group settings to stop any Facebook Group, of any size, from changing its settings from 'private' to 'public', in order to protect group users from unintended exposure.
Nov 8, 2018 · Moving forward, admins of secret groups with 5,000 members or more can now change their group privacy setting from secret to closed. If you currently admin a secret group, consider using the closed setting if you want non-members to be able to search for and easily discover your group.
Aug 14, 2019 · Facebook announced that it’s simplifying its group privacy settings, renaming its confusing closed and secret groups in favor of the more straightforward public and private settings, which can ...
May 16, 2019 · Groups have several privacy options: Public groups allow anyone to join, closed groups allow anyone to request membership, and secret groups do not appear in searches and new members must be...
