Facebook Groups No Longer the Place for Brands

Our colleague at AllFacebook.com sums up the developments from yesterday’s live Facebook event, where Mark Zuckerberg and company announced changes to the groups product.

“The main purpose of groups is to help Facebook users socialize around any topic or community,” Nick O’Neill writes. Ideally, however, the topic or community will not be related to a brand.

“While I’m sure there are organizations that will attempt to create public groups for socializing around their products (and users that will create similar groups), all brand-related conversations should remain on Facebook Pages as far as Facebook’s concerned,” he continues.

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