Have you started a Facebook group or are thinking about it? Have you thought about having rules for that group? You should!
Group rules are best way to create and maintain a good environment for your community to grow in. But what does enforcing those rules actually ensure?
1. Encourages a welcoming environment
You want to make sure that every member of your Facebook group feels welcome. Enforcing the established rules ensures that your group members will feel safe to share their opinions and thoughts with the group. This will create a space for welcome debate and discussions.
2. Maintains order
You want to maintain the welcoming environment you have created. Facebook has developed features to make it super easy to maintain the order of the group.
Admins can reach out to those that have broken a rule and highlight specifically which rule they broke. As well as providing an opportunity to fix their mistake.
Additionally, this is done privately, so no one feels embarrassed for being reprimanded in front of everyone.
3. Directs the conversations
It is super important to keep everyone on topic. Rules allow the admins to make sure the conversation is not straying too far from the intended topic into anything unrelated.
Even within related topics, conversations can take a turn and become toxic. Rules in your Facebook group allow admins to redirect that conversation to a healthier topic.
4. Disallows promotions
One way to keep everyone on topic is to disallow group members to post promotions. Your Facebook may be for discussions and community. It can easily get bogged down by shameless self-promotion.
Group members that are almost exclusively posting sales, ads, or promotions are not contributing to the group. You want your group to be interactive. Group members that do not follow that can become an aggravation and will dissuade other members from staying active.
5. Provides clarity and ease
In order to keep your group members engaged, clarity is required. Your group members want to:
- Have a conversation
- Get information
- Ask questions
If it is hard for them to do those things, they will not want to be active. It will require too much work and they may move on to another group that is easier to navigate.
One way to ensure clarity and ease is to establish a ‘no spamming’ rule. Spamming is an easy way for your group members to get bogged down and disinterested.
6. Resolves conflicts
Disagreements are bound to happen. It is impossible to agree with everything someone says. But there is a healthy way to have a disagreement.
If your group members are having a debate, that is okay. But you need to make sure that the environment remains respectful and that everyone feels as though it is a safe place to express their opinion.
Unfortunately, sometimes people are not able to remain calm in a disagreement. Enforcing the rules will bring everything back down to a more harmonious topic.
Having rules for your Facebook group is essential when creating your group. Enforcing those rules even more so. It will ensure the best environment for all of the members.
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Grace Lopykinski is a blogging intern at LadyBossBlogger. She currently attends the University of Tennessee and is studying Business Administration and English.
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