A quick Monday update on the events of last week … The “Grads of 2009″ Facebook Group that linked to 16 2013 groups affiliated with Canadian universities has been deleted, as have the groups themselves, and the Facebook user who was linked to the groups.
Yesterday, Matthew Melnyk (@matthewmelnyk) spotted a Facebook Group linking to 16 other Facebook Groups targetting applicants to Canadian universities. There are many reasons why it is suspected that these groups are not only run by marketers who are pretending to be students, but also have malicious intent in mind. Bottom line, now is a critical [...]
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.
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