If you are the sole administrator on a Facebook Group and you delete your account, the admin role is left vacant and can be claimed by any Facebook user who is so inclined. This also happens if you leave a group that you are the sole administrator of. In some situations this is ideal: if an applicant decides to attend another school or does not receive an offer of admission and loses interest in the group, another applicant (or school representative) can step in and keep the community going. Unfortunately there is nothing stopping any other individual from doing the same thing. And remember, group administrators can now change the names of groups – so really, an onion farmer could claim your Class of 2013 group and change its name to Jenny’s Ornery Unions and start happily sending out mass messages about her product to the group’s membership.
Background: I’ve worked for the government, I’ve worked with non-profits (and founded one), I’ve worked with businesses (small and large) and I’ve worked in an agency environment – and now I’m at a public university.
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Disclaimer: This post discusses media coverage of a breaking news story. It does NOT cover the story itself – please refer to the news sites below for information regarding the Tori Stafford arrests (May 20, 09)
This morning the news broke that arrests had been made in the Tori Stafford abduction case (now a murder case). [...]
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