Sunday, June 26, 2011

What to do when someone adds you to a Facebook group you don't like

Have you received Facebook messages from a group and said, "Wait, I didn't join that group. Why am I getting these messages?" One of the worst, most invasive functionalities on all of Facebook right now is the Groups app that allows any friend to add you to a group and begin firing emails and invitations from the group right at you. There is no way to prevent this at this time. Let's not even get into the many ways this is dumb, and get right to you can do.



HOW TO LEAVE GROUPS
  1. Click Home
  2. Go over to the left navigation bar and click Groups
  3. You will see a list of all the groups you're in (and have been unwittingly added to)
  4. Hover your cursor to the right of the names of these groups and click the little X that appears
  5. Click to leave the groups you don't want to be in
HOW TO TURN OFF EMAILS FROM GROUPS
  1. Click Account, top right of the Home page
  2. Click Notifications
  3. Click Groups
  4. Click Change Email Notifications For Individual Groups
  5. Check and uncheck as you like

3 comments:

  1. Thank you, thank you.

    Now, would you please help me with this. I created a family group and inadvertently included a friend who is not family. How can I remove her from this group?

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