Group organizers will now be able to create live Messenger chat groups. You can browse chats organized by announcements, topics, events, and more to connect with group members.
Previewed earlier this year as a larger rethinking of Facebook Groups and Messenger group chats, the new Communitychats also resemble a casual version of workplace community platforms. Meta has found inspiration in other apps before, even though progress on challenging TikTok with similar features has been slow.
The chats can go beyond just texting, with support for audio channels, up to 30 group members, and people can turn on their cameras to present or broadcast what they are doing. In the coming weeks, tests will begin for a feature that will allow you to chat within Messenger and then create a Facebook group, giving you a more organized home base. Some groups don't have access to chat, but more will soon.
The ability to get instant responses on timely topics in the community is one of the biggest benefits of maintaining large Facebook Groups. For a whole major city, admins could create Messenger groups for different boroughs so people could stay connected to the next gym raid closest to them.
Group admins will have a number of tools that they can use to keep the community well maintained, including auto-moderation features that can boot members who post group-violating content. Admins can block, suspend, and remove members from their accounts. Users can expect their privacy settings to remain consistent, and Facebook will use machine learning to automatically remove harmful messages at a wider breadth than it does in private Messenger chats.
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