{"id":3477,"date":"2016-05-07T06:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T22:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/07\/facebook-is-testing-a-feature-that-lets-you-find-more-groups\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T06:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T22:40:25","slug":"facebook-is-testing-a-feature-that-lets-you-find-more-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/07\/facebook-is-testing-a-feature-that-lets-you-find-more-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is testing a feature that lets you find more Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iphone_1-25-2\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA2LzYxL2lwaG9uZV8xMjUyLjZiMGZlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/a84d99a2\/a7b\/iphone_1-25-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Facebook+is+testing+a+feature+that+lets+you+find+more+Groups&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F06%2Ffacebook-groups-discover-feature%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F06%2Ffacebook-groups-discover-feature%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re looking for parenting tips or the best new restaurants in your neighborhood, Facebook Groups is useful for finding virtual communities around various topics.<\/p>\n<p>Now\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Facebook is testing a dedicated &#8220;Discover&#8221; feature within the Groups section, making it easier to join conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new tab will let you<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><i style=\"font-weight: bold\">\u00a0<\/i>browse public and closed Facebook Groups by category, including Groups your friends are in and local Groups. You can see what&#8217;s gaining traction in your circle, and in your city.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/03\/facebook-live-stars-to-follow\/\">10 Facebook Live stars you need to follow now<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">As a randomly-selected Facebook user in the test group, I can confirm the Discover feature is easy and intuitive to use. Indeed, it&#8217;s a surprise it&#8217;s taken this long to roll out something like this.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/06\/facebook-groups-discover-feature\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook-groups\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook Groups<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/social-media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Social Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462573874' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462573874'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/3Tkz3WOB53Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re looking for parenting tips or the best new restaurants in your neighborhood, Facebook Groups is useful for finding virtual communities around various topics. Now\u00a0Facebook is testing a dedicated &#8220;Discover&#8221; feature within the Groups section, making it easier to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/07\/facebook-is-testing-a-feature-that-lets-you-find-more-groups\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[851,2722,783,725],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-groups","tag-social-media","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}