How To Set Up A Family Facebook Page

En español | Article highlights:

• Control who has admission to your family page
• Contact anybody in the grouping at once
• Understand the privacy features and make them work for you

Everybody loves Facebook for staying in touch, but that doesn't hateful you necessarily want to share family-related textile with your friends and business colleagues. The solution: create a private Facebook group just for family members. You control admission, yous can allow whomever you like to share messages and photos with the grouping, and, of course, information technology's free.

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Building a Facebook grouping page is a great way for family members to stay in touch.

For starters, you'll need a personal Facebook account (the odds are proficient that yous already have ane — more than half of 50-plus Internet users relish social networking today). Exist sure you understand the privacy settings used to limit who sees what you post online. You'll observe these controls in the drop-down Business relationship carte du jour at the tiptop far right of the page, nether Privacy Settings; your options are explained in detail here.

A Facebook group page isn't that different from your personal folio. Members of the group can post messages, photos and video; leave comments; create events, "like" posts that entreatment to them; and have alive chat sessions with each participant typing messages dorsum and forth. But at that place are some interesting added capabilities, too. For example, instead of sending letters 1 at a time to group members, you tin can contact everyone at once with the click of a button.

Another intriguing option is creating grouping documents, which anybody can work on together. Wish you had all the family recipes in i place? Create a group document and invite everyone to kick in their favorites.

You don't have to look far to discover the "Create Group" option. At that place should be a clickable link in the right-manus column on your Home folio (you may have to click "More than" if you've already joined several groups). If you withal don't see the link, just become to Facebook.com/groups.

Click "Create Group" and a box pops up asking you to name the group, choose an icon, add together members and set the group's overall privacy level. Let's take a moment to explore each of these tasks. And recall, you can change whatsoever of these choices later the group is created.

The icon is a little picture that shows up next to the grouping name in listings. There are lots of choices in a drop-down menu.

When choosing a name, you're immune to duplicate i that's already in use, but you might want to come up up with something distinctive if you want family members to discover it by searching.  Pity poor John Smith scrolling through page afterward page of Smith Family groups!

In the Members department, you tin add any Facebook friend to the new group. They don't have to confirm anything (information technology's easy to driblet out if they don't want to participate). When you beginning typing, a list of existing Facebook friends' names matching what you've entered so far appears, and so you don't have to worry well-nigh misspellings.  And, of course, you can e'er add together more than members later on.

The Privacy setting here controls the group's online visibility. If you want the group to prove upwardly in Facebook searches and be completely visible to anyone, including the member list and anything that's been posted, choose "Open" here. For more privacy, choose "Closed": Facebook members volition exist able to notice the group, come across the members list and ask to join, simply they won't meet the postings. To wing completely under the radar, choose "Private."  That fashion, the group won't testify upward in a Facebook search and nobody but members will be able to see it — the group name won't even prove upwardly in your contour.

Now just click "Create" and — voilà — your family unit has an online habitation!

As the creator of the group, you're automatically considered a group administrator, which means yous can modify settings, approve new members and remove members who make nasty comments most you at a family wedding. You can share these privileges with other members by making them administrators, also. Simply click "Run into all" next to the Members List on the group abode page and you lot'll see the "Brand Admin" option nether each proper noun. You'll too come across a niggling "x" side by side to each name. Click one of these to remove a member from the group.

If you expect to the left of the group name at the acme of the page, yous'll run into a drawing of two heads in a box — deadening! Click on it, though, and things get more interesting. At present you can upload a family photo or even crowd around the webcam (if you accept one) and have a picture then and there. Now that photo volition exist the face of the grouping, much like the Profile Motion picture in your personal Facebook account.

Another feature worth setting upwards is a group email address (you'll detect this option nether "Edit Group"). You create the first part of the address (say "AARPMember" as an example) and Facebook adds "@groups.facebook.com." Now, whenever anyone sends an e-mail to AARPMember@groups.facebook.com, the message will announced automatically in every grouping member'southward News Feed.

That takes care of the basics: If yous need additional information, Facebook has a comprehensive aid section for group features here.

And, of course, now that you lot have the family unit site under your belt, information technology's time to think about boosted opportunities for quick-and-easy group sharing. Practice you play on a sports team, or belong to a society or congregation? Are there a grouping of friends at work who'd like to share private messages during off-hours? Facebook lets each member join up to 300 groups, so the only constructive limitation is your imagination.

Source: https://www.aarp.org/technology/social-media/info-04-2011/create_family_facebook_group.html#:~:text=If%20you%20still%20don't,explore%20each%20of%20these%20tasks.

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