Facebook Testing Students-Only Groups For Universities

Perhaps nostalgic for its Harvard days, Facebook is testing a feature that allows users with authenticated .edu email addresses to create groups for students at their universities.

Perhaps nostalgic for its Harvard days, Facebook is testing a feature that allows users with authenticated .edu email addresses to create groups for students at their universities.

TechCrunch reported that Brown and Vanderbilt are the only schools with the new feature to date, but Facebook is considering rolling it out to other universities so that students can create groups for dorms, classes, clubs, parties, and other entities.

Only students who have used their .edu email addresses from schools that are part of Facebook’s test will receive notification of the new feature.

And the new groups employ the same open, closed, and secret settings that standard Facebook groups use.

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