Facebook Depreciates Hashtag Topics in Groups
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Loading... - Margaret Miller
- 07 Mar 2023
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Facebook’s on-again, off-again relationship with hashtags seems to have taken another down turn, with the company announcing that hashtag topics in groups, which were added in 2019, will be depreciated next month.
As you can see in this screenshot, posted by Radu Onescu, group managers are now being notified that the Group Topics option is going away.
Facebook has provided a full explainer in its Help Center:
“Topics in Facebook groups are going away soon. This means that admins won’t be able to add hashtags to other people’s posts or manage the list of group hashtags. However, anyone can still add hashtags to their own group posts, and selecting the hashtag will show other Facebook posts that use that hashtag.”
So it’s not a huge step, it just lessens group admins’ ability to categorize different discussions in the app, which had initially been seen as a means to better sort group conversations. Read More…
