Facebook's New Groups Difficult To Grasp

In order to make it simpler for users to privately share information, Facebook made some changes to its Group feature. But users may need some time to get used to this new arrangement.

The term "groups" can be a bit confusing as it has been used around the social networking website in many ways since its early years. Starting last week, Facebook's new Groups provide users with the opportunity to form groups similar to private club pages.

No matter if that "club" consists of your family, friends, class project, little league or work team, it gives you the option to post private content that only members of the group can access.

Group pages formed under the previous design will remain as they are, but from now onwards, users will only be able to create Groups using the new style.

Once a Group has been formed, the creator has the option to decide whether he/she wants the group to be open, where information and members are visible to everyone. Or it can also be closed, where group members are visible to people, but they can't see what information has been posted. Then there is the option of forming secret groups, where people would only know about the group if they are invited.

In addition to posting messages and photos, group members can also create text documents that each member can edit. And the entire group can take the form of a private chat window, where all members can talk at once.

Only time will tell whether new Facebook Groups will be popular amongst users.