As you may remember, I made a Facebook group named “Promote Your Blog Posts” where members can share the link of their blog post there in order to get more likes:
facebook.com/groups/790148191172772/
Please refer to my previous post: Get more Facebook likes for your post
However, I feel things are getting out of control there. People are posting external links, pics, and videos – not only links to the blog posts.
I’d appreciate your advice. Do you think it’d be better to force some rules that only WordPress links are allowed? Or, it’s better to keep it as it right now, open for every thing, which is not the purpose of course!
Edit: It’s deleted till I think of something better!
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I closed my Facebook acct long ago. So much unwanted nonsense finding its way in.
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That’s is option. After all, in Pages & Groups, I feel that we’re serving Facebook company more than we’re serving ourselves. Thank you my friend for the advice. I’ll return with something very soon
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Thank You Mohamad
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Would be better to set some ground rules. It would be better for you to manage the page then.
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Thank you, Ashwini, for the advice. rules and managing the group is the second option. I’ll return with something very soon
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You can always set the posts to be approved by you first. But, if you don’t set rules, you’ll find people will abuse the privilege.
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Thank you, Dorinda, for the advice. rules is the second option. However, as you said on Facebook, there are a lot of abusers. I’ll return with something very soon
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I am in that group as well but due to time constraints not using Facebook nowadays. Not having idea of what’s going there but I would say whatever you think right proceed because if it is for blogs sharing it should be only for that.
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Thank you, Subbashini, for the kind and supportive words. After all, it was meant to serve us and our friends her. I’ll return with something very soon
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I closed my FB account some months past, Mohamad; it didn’t appeal to me as WP does.
My advise would be to follow your original thoughts and instructions. Otherwise it sounds to me like ‘abuse’.
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It’s not easy for individual to control and prevent the abuse on a large community such as Facebook. Thank you, Carolyn, for the advice. Closing the group is the third option. I’ll return with something very soon
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Rules are important, I appreciate them. Thank you
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Thank you, dear Paola. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work without rules 🙂 I’ll check on all options and comeback with something.
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I am not fan of facebook! Never have been! I feel fb does not serve the right purpose for humanity and now your concerns of “needing rules” on your innocent fb page is clearly proving my point.
I believe, if you do not want the riff-raff in your fb page, then you need to stand guard at the gate and card everyone for proper admittance.
In addition, if your fb page is “no longer serving its purpose”, then that says a lot. As well as your statement of “things are getting out of control there.”
If “open for everything” is not the purpose of your page, then…… What do YOU feel you should do? Ultimately, the choice is yours. What does YOUR gut say to do?
Rather than “forcing rules” now and becoming a mean guy, maybe your “path of least resistance” is closing that page and starting a new, more monitored, more ‘ruled’ page. New is good! 😀 But once you set rules, you will have to monitor it to make sure they are followed. I imagine, the ones who are spamming now, are the ones who don’t care about rules anyway, for they obviously are not conscious of their consciousness or have any cares of what the page is for.
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Thank you, Ren, for the detailed advice. I like how you were able to analyze my thinking about it. It’s a great forth option here, to close the existing and start new group. I’m considering all options here and I’ll return back with something very soon.
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Hello Mr. Karbi,
I think you should take control from starting. If you won’t control random links, post and videos on your group, group may lose trust of its members. So, I suggest you to take control and apply some rules.
Good Luck!
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Thank you very much, Clara. Well that very valid point. I appreciate that reminded me of it. I appreciate all the advice presented here too and I’ll come back with something soon.
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