Facebook groups let you add friends without their permission – and there’s nothing they can do about it
…except leave Facebook.
I just discovered this tonight by adding my brother to a ‘Stop Paypal freezing peoples’ accounts’ group that I joined. I fully expected Facebook to send him some kind of invitation, but no, it just added him without his permission.
No doubt my brother will see that he has become a member of this group and use the ‘leave group’ option if he doesn’t want to be part of it. But if he was one of those people who doesn’t log in every day, he could be a member of a group without knowing it for days, weeks or even months.
From a reputation standpoint, that might not be such a good thing.
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