You may have noticed as administrators of Facebook Groups begin to upgrade to the new Groups set up you will start receiving emails and notifications when someone posts on each group. This can end up being a little irritating and will fill your inbox up quite quickly if like myself, you belong to a few groups and don’t want to know each time someone posts an update.
You can still get notifications inside Facebook but to save your Spam filter working overtime and your Smartphone constantly buzzing with new notifications here is how to turn them off.
1. Click “Account” Top right hand corner whilst logged into Facebook.
2. Click the “Notifications” tab.
3. Scroll down to the “Groups” section.
4. You will notice there are several options to choose from to receive notifications. Chose from “All posts”, “friends posts” or “off”.
You have now changed your settings to stop receiving emails from Groups. To be sure you can also:
1. Scroll back to the top where it has “How you get notifications” and select the Email option:
If you click the edit button you can turn on and off individual notifications about almost anything that happens on Facebook.
Change you settings on each group too!
You also have the option to turn off all notifications from Groups by visting the group itself.
1. Go to the group page you are getting notifications from.
2. Select the Notifications tab in the top right hand corner.
3. Now you can select “All posts”, “Friends’ Post”s or “Off”.
Make sure you check all your settings regularly so you can change notifications for all the apps, pages and groups that you belong to.
If you have any useful hints and tips or need to know something about Facebook that is frying your brain, just drop in a comment or email me. 🙂
HI. I do hope you can help me, please. I have a problem which is certainly frying my brain! One of my admin members recently ‘upgraded’ one of my Facebook groups, believing she was being helpful, and I now find that I can no longer ‘message all members’ with a discrete message. A valuable facility seems to have been discarded. Now, every single post on the wall is automatically sent as a message to all members, and so, too, is every comment or reply that members make, and I do not want this to happen. How can I regain the control and use I had previously? If there is no way this can be achieved, how can I ‘downgrade’ the group back to its previous, better form as an ‘old group’?
Hi Robert. Probably the best option is to direct you to the Facebook Help Pages, specifically relating to the new Groups feature. The first link is about upgrading and what will happen if you don’t upgrade. Unfortuantely once it is done there is no going back.
http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=18966
The second link is about Groups on the whole which I suggest you bookmark. http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=131954106881345
There is the option to use the group email address to contact members, but as outlined in this post, it can become a little annoying and most people will wish to turn them off. If your group is actually a business, it is highly recommended you switch to a page instead. Hope that helps! Emma 🙂
facebook has been upgrading for some time. and for me, i don’t think that’s such a good idea because it just makes me confused. It’s kinda hard to adjust again to changes especially when you are used to some things, like the usual facebook. However, i cannot do anything about it… i’ll just get used to it. Thanks for sharing this one!
I have notifications turned off for a group but the emails keep coming. Those options you refer to are no longer available. Help.
HI Eileen, I’ve updated the post now so it should be working! Please let me know if you are still having problems. Thanks for your comment 🙂