To find it really annoying when you join a group on Facebook and then the admin does an “let’s welcome our new members” post!

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Admittedly it’s only happened once on a local FB group I joined, but now I notice that the admin of the group (who is a local school mum) does a post EVERY week welcoming new members and tagging them. It really winds me up: a) new members probably don’t want their name on a post for all to see, they probably wanted to just discretely join the group as a source of information / sell stuff / recycle stuff etc etc b) who on god’s green earth has got time to do a post every week?! (This woman obviously! To be honest I think it’s her way of being having a bit of control and notoriety as the starter of what is now quite a popular and very useful group locally.)

I’ve seen it on other FB groups I’ve joined too but luckily it’s a fad that started long after I had joined so didn’t get “announced”

I hate Facebook anyway and only remain on it for local groups and events as so much stuff is advertised on their now. Or id be off it in a flash!!

Am I being unreasonable or do peoooe that have experienced this love it

Surely you join a group because you want to be part of something?
If this was an actual in person group would you refuse to tell people your name?

I don't really like it but it's automatic, it's an option for group owners to turn on and post on a schedule or when there are X number of new members. So noone sat there posting it each week.

Lots of groups are just about getting info, not for interaction. They are just noticeboards really.

Oh well that’s slightly less weird then. I genuinely thought she was sat there typing it out each week 😆

Me too 😄

No I join it for the information. It’s not to get to know other members. Would prefer to remain relatively anonymous online

I'm more annoyed with the amount of anonymous posters!

Also annoying, agreed

@bergamotorange true.
But unless it's a information group for swingers or something why does it matter if people know your name.
If your person page is set up so all your information can only be read by those who you have friended no one can find out anything about you except literally your name.
If you really want to be anonymous and just want information set up a Facebook page with a vague version of your name (JA Smith instead of Jenny Smith) and have your profile picture set as a cat.

Like being made to stand up in assembly for a congratulations. Cringe.

Just don’t want the fanfare welcome. Happy to be recognised if I post on the group. Especially as I would never buy/sell/pick up a freebie off someone with an anonymous page for safety. Just REALLY do not need to announced and welcomed. Would like to slink in and occasionally use the group for its purpose. Not be LOOK HERE THIS PERSON HAS JOINED OUR GROUP, LETS ALL WELCOME THEM! I get the sentiment, I do. But it ain’t needed on a FB group. It’s weird. Less weird now I know it’s not being manually typed out. But still weird. We’re not all sitting round a community hall

Exactly this!!

Well, as someone else said, an Admin can set up a welcome message to run automatically. FB does the rest ( i.e. adding in the new members when the post is set to run).

But I don't understand why you don't like it? It doesn't tell anyone in the group anything about you, unless your profile is set to be public?

I run a group for our secondary school. We have it set up to welcome newcomers and immediately comment ‘meet your admin team’ with our names tagged. We run it with an iron fist (there’s also an unmoderated Wild West group where anything goes 😂) so it’s handy to make ourselves visible.

Totally agree, for this reason.

Who reads these welcome posts?

Why do you have to run it with an iron fist? Genuinely curious.

The admin of one of my kids’ year group fb groups for parents (c400 members) is so OTT - reposts all the school newsletters, timetables, notifications etc. Started the group a few weeks before secondary school places were even offered. Answers every question posted within minutes even though she has no other children so other parents with older ones are far more knowledgeable about the school. I just inwardly roll my eyes and assume she has far too much time on her hands. We are all capable of reading the school communications for ourselves and don’t need spoon feeding, thanks. I’m on groups for other year groups and they’re nothing like this one.

I never knew that 😆

I also find it incredibly annoying and go in and de-tag myself as soon as I get notified.

Side note - I also hate it when someone tags everyone for a very benign post, I was a member of a group for a local children's entertainer who did baby groups, then she started tagging everyone in every single post. I left.

I don't like it either, lol. I also don't like it when you start getting notifications that people have posted in the group. I mean, it's quick to remedy. But still!

I'm the admin for a few Facebook groups. On one of them I have set up an automatic weekly post that says:
This is an automatic post.
We welcome our new members!
Please reply to this and introduce yourself to the rest of the group.
Some people ignore it but some post a reply. I'd not thought that it might be annoying and I'll try to see if group members want me to stop this automatic post.

This is giving people a choice so I don’t see anything wrong with this at all. If they’re happy to do it they will, and if they’re not (like me) they’ll refrain

Just leave Facebook. I'm sure you can manage without knowing all local events.

You can remove yourself from receiving the notifications, that's what I do. I rarely post but do join many groups for info and click on them if I need info. The @all is the only one which you seem to have to leave the group to avoid.

Ha, we have very clear rules on what the group is for. It’s for information, notification and passing on old equipment. If you want to whinge that little Jonny got a detention we are not your audience. We aren’t part of school, we can’t help, so take it elsewhere.
There is another group where anything goes and if you were only in that group you’d think the school was a miserable place run by dictators and filled with crying kids. We work hard to keep it strictly factual and informative. Most folk don’t want the drama anyway 😂 I post the newsletter every week (and use the everyone tag but it’s the only time I do) mainly so if we get a whinge about no notice for something I can tag them in it. We also have things like term dates and equipment lists pinned for easy access. I’m not building a community, I’m offering a service. So yes, iron fist. 😂

Totally unnecessary IMHO.
I joined a local gardening group and was asked to introduce myself and my pronouns as if they were an entity all by themselves. Well they are actually because they are fuck all to do with me🤣