Sorry I had to go look at one of my groups - on the right side around the area of your graphic, either on top of it or below it is a blurb that says notifications and to the right of that is a box with 3 dots in it. Clicking on that gives a drop down - Membership Approval - Any member can add or approve members. - Any member can add members, but an admin must approve them. If you take the first one, you as an admin don't have to approve them but any other member can - so in effect, this is not what I stated - let me take a look at another group. All the groups I admin I control who can join because they are for certain topics and/or sensitive topics that not everybody and their brother need be on. But best I can see at the present time either you or someone else in the group - if you select the first line can approve new members. Tim On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought when I made the group open that it was open. I’m getting > requests to become member and I don’t know that I’m getting maximum > exposure as some people don’t like to join things. Tim, I noticed your > comment, “That brings up another issue - you can set the group for folks to > join without approval.” I’ve looked everywhere for a way to do that, with > no luck. > Mike > Clay Co > > *From:* Timothy Stowell <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:32 AM > *To:* Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [MNGEN] Facebook Public Group > > 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, notices from the group only go to group members. Although it will show up on your newsfeed occasionally, it will not go to your friends newsfeed unless they are a group member. You will see it only because you are a member. You're welcome! Karen On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Timothy Stowell via <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry I had to go look at one of my groups - on the right side around the > area of your graphic, either on top of it or below it is a blurb that says > notifications and to the right of that is a box with 3 dots in it. > Clicking on that gives a drop down - > > Membership Approval > > - Any member can add or approve members. > - Any member can add members, but an admin must approve them. > > > > If you take the first one, you as an admin don't have to approve them but > any other member can - so in effect, this is not what I stated - let me > take a look at another group. All the groups I admin I control who can > join because they are for certain topics and/or sensitive topics that not > everybody and their brother need be on. But best I can see at the present > time either you or someone else in the group - if you select the first line > can approve new members. > > Tim > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I thought when I made the group open that it was open. I’m getting >> requests to become member and I don’t know that I’m getting maximum >> exposure as some people don’t like to join things. Tim, I noticed your >> comment, “That brings up another issue - you can set the group for folks to >> join without approval.” I’ve looked everywhere for a way to do that, with >> no luck. >> Mike >> Clay Co >> >> *From:* Timothy Stowell <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:32 AM >> *To:* Mike (Dino) Peterson <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [MNGEN] Facebook Public Group >> >> 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