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to want to delete people off a facebook group I am admin of?

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fartblossom · 22/04/2010 19:30

Bit of background.

I recently set up a facebook group for local mums to have a meet up every-so-often (a bit like dare I say it netmums ). I orignally had it set up as a closed group so I would have to allow people in, but found people couldnt invite their friends so opened it up. Anyway now I have 63 members and I can pretty much guarantee that some people wont be interested what-so-ever about meet-ups in this way. However Ive just created an event and one woman put on there that she couldnt come, but didnt know who anyone was and didnt sign up to it . The group has the words meet-up and mum in it, plus in the description I mentioned what it was for.

Anyway WIBU to get rid of a few people from the group (those who I didnt know who they were at all - there are some people who's names I recognise as they are friends of friends IYSWIM) and turn it to a secret group? I am thinking about sending a message as well to those I delete from it, but I dont know what to really say. I dont want to discriminate against anybody, but really dont want that many people in who are not interested in that kind of thing. How many of them joined just cos their friend did or just heard about it from somewhere so joined?

What do you think?

On another note - blimey Ive gone from lurker, to the odd couple of posts on threads and now Ive started 2 threads in as many days. Am I getting addicted to AIBU?

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FairyCakeBump · 22/04/2010 21:31

I don't think that's unreasonable. You set up the group for a certain purpose and it's not going that way. I'd put something in the info about what the group is for, describe the criteria for joining and say anyone who doesn't meet it will be removed from the group. Then do a wall post before you delete people.

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