The issue is Facebook Groups where an administrator leaves the group (for a wide variety of reasons) thereby exposing the group’s administrative ownership. Evidently anybody can take control which is what this “Control Your Info” group has done.
I saw this posted today via my CNET feed (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10394058-2.html?tag=nl.e703) and checked it out. The comments vary but the actual comments above by an actual victim of the exposure sums it up best – I love Kevin’s zeal.
This group had their administrator die, hence group left open, and their group has been “hijacked” and disrupted.
The counter to this can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/user/controlyourinfo
The bottom line for FB? Figure out better way to deal with orphaned groups – at least be a member older than 30 days and give notice to those who are members of orphaned status to step up or cease to exist.
The bottom line for users of groups? Pay attention to your group memberships and consider all memberships to be public knowledge – anyone in that group can disclose your membership status.
I just reviewed my groups and yes, I needed to clean them up.
Thanks “Control Your Info” – I think.




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