Yes on the wall / timeline. Things posted to your wall by you are seen by all your friends, unless you change your settings to say that everything you post is to the world. Since everything you say you may not want the world to see, you can restrict it to just friends or various other options -- like friends of friends, acquaintances. I have mine set to go to all my friends save one, who was a pain recently (somewhat like moderation on a list). If I want a larger audience I can upgrade it from friends to world - like saying I like some really neat something on someone else's wall I can choose to share it to not only my world of friends but truly to the world. Of course sharing to the world doesn't necessarily mean the world will look at it but its anyone's guess who does. Although I do believe there is software out there that tells you who has viewed x page - which is obviously for people with a lot more time than me. As for your group - it would have separate settings from you - replies can either go back to the group only, or can be seen by the public at large. Looking at your group settings it says it is a public group - that anyone (world) can see the group, its members and posts to the group. One can have a private group, a semi-private group as well - but bottom line you've got yours set as it should be - an open group. One though has to join the group to post to it. That brings up another issue - you can set the group for folks to join without approval or you can put them in a pending approval where you have review each one who wishes to join. Of course as the admin you can remove folks that get rowdy and block them from ever joining again if you change the settings to let folks join without approval. On one of the groups I host, people have to apply to join and have to have the right criteria to join. I suspect for a genealogy site I'd not require approval to join / post so if someone wants to comment at 3 am they can, when I'm in theory asleep. Help in Facebook is rudimentary, much easier to Google what you seek to know or ask someone who has done this awhile. Tim On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks and thanks for the help Tim. Now – is wall the same as timeline? > If it’s posted to your wall, do all your ‘friends’ then see it? If someone > asks me a question about the county, would my reply go just to the group or > does it also go to all my friends or just to the person who posted the > question. I’ve tried to find answers to a lot of questions but there help > is either not written very well or my old age is starting to give me > problems. > Mike > > > *From:* Timothy Stowell <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2015 9:16 AM > *To:* Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> ; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [MNGEN] Facebook Public Group > > Looks good Mike. A very nice, detailed description as well. You get > the gold star award. May it bring you and others much fruit. > > Sharing means I could post your site to my wall; liking means I like what > you wrote; if you see a picture of the world by your post it means the > world can see it. This can be restricted for a personal site or group to > just group members, one's friends or all your friends except someone you > are friends with but don't want them to see, which while it seems why, > there are valid reason for such. > > Tim > >

Mike, I think you will spend most of your time on your Newsfeed as evidenced by some of your questions and that is most common as well. . Think of the Newsfeed as a ticker tape. Your newsfeed will show some of the posts posted by friends as the day goes on. It likes to default to Top Stories but for me that is too difficult. I make sure my newsfeed is just that, a feed, posted because of time chronologically and ongoing. Your wall is the storage of only your posts that you make OR if someone visits your wall and makes a post. You can post on your wall and it will put a copy on your newsfeed. If you or a friend post on your wall it makes a copy on the newsfeed of your friends. The more friends you have, the lower percentage of their posts that will show up on your Newsfeed. If you have one friend every post they make will show up on your newsfeed but if you have 100 friends, only 20% of their posts will show up on the newsfeed or similar portion. Postings in the group will also show up on the newsfeed but likely you will have it set so you receive a notification when there is a group post. The newsfeed uses the same friend ratio for the newsfeed so you would not see all of the group posts without having notifications. Hopefully this will help you get a quick start on Facebook. :) Karen On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Timothy Stowell via <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes on the wall / timeline. Things posted to your wall by you are seen by > all your friends, unless you change your settings to say that everything > you post is to the world. Since everything you say you may not want the > world to see, you can restrict it to just friends or various other options > -- like friends of friends, acquaintances. I have mine set to go to all my > friends save one, who was a pain recently (somewhat like moderation on a > list). If I want a larger audience I can upgrade it from friends to world > - like saying I like some really neat something on someone else's wall I > can choose to share it to not only my world of friends but truly to the > world. Of course sharing to the world doesn't necessarily mean the world > will look at it but its anyone's guess who does. Although I do believe > there is software out there that tells you who has viewed x page - which is > obviously for people with a lot more time than me. > > As for your group - it would have separate settings from you - replies can > either go back to the group only, or can be seen by the public at large. > Looking at your group settings it says it is a public group - that anyone > (world) can see the group, its members and posts to the group. > > One can have a private group, a semi-private group as well - but bottom > line you've got yours set as it should be - an open group. One though has > to join the group to post to it. That brings up another issue - you can > set the group for folks to join without approval or you can put them in a > pending approval where you have review each one who wishes to join. Of > course as the admin you can remove folks that get rowdy and block them from > ever joining again if you change the settings to let folks join without > approval. > > On one of the groups I host, people have to apply to join and have to have > the right criteria to join. I suspect for a genealogy site I'd not require > approval to join / post so if someone wants to comment at 3 am they can, > when I'm in theory asleep. > > Help in Facebook is rudimentary, much easier to Google what you seek to > know or ask someone who has done this awhile. > > Tim > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks and thanks for the help Tim. Now – is wall the same as timeline? >> If it’s posted to your wall, do all your ‘friends’ then see it? If someone >> asks me a question about the county, would my reply go just to the group or >> does it also go to all my friends or just to the person who posted the >> question. I’ve tried to find answers to a lot of questions but there help >> is either not written very well or my old age is starting to give me >> problems. >> Mike >> >> >> *From:* Timothy Stowell <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2015 9:16 AM >> *To:* Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> ; [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [MNGEN] Facebook Public Group >> >> Looks good Mike. A very nice, detailed description as well. You get >> the gold star award. May it bring you and others much fruit. >> >> Sharing means I could post your site to my wall; liking means I like what >> you wrote; if you see a picture of the world by your post it means the >> world can see it. This can be restricted for a personal site or group to >> just group members, one's friends or all your friends except someone you >> are friends with but don't want them to see, which while it seems why, >> there are valid reason for such. >> >> Tim >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message