Gadgetory

better service for a private group chat and photo sharing with more than 700 million people using it every month and they're putting up 2.5 million posts and links and comments and photos every month to you'd think that would be a pretty popular app but there's no app for that yet but Facebook is trying to fix that that services groups and until now it's been buried a few levels deep inside Facebook's apps seriously this is how you get to it you open the app then you tap over here to more then you scroll down to find your groups then you tap on a group so this is a groups app you've got a bunch of little Facebook groups each with our own bubble you can reorder them you can search for groups and you can make new groups when you tap into a group it looks and acts just like the Facebook newsfeed but unlike the newsfeed to the rules of the group make it really easy to know who can see your stuff it's either public closed or secret closed groups can be searched and found and you can see use in them but you need an invite to actually see what's inside them secret groups are just plain secret whenever you make a new post there's a big indicator telling you who can see it just like with Facebook you can put up photos and comments tag your friends and scroll through it just like the main newsfeed there's practically nothing new here at all it's all just stuff you've done before in the app just better there are a few gestures to help you get around some subtle sound effects and in general it's just faster than the main Facebook app for example it's easier to see who's in a group and mess around with notification settings and permissions and all the other stuff you might want to change than a group Peck you can even add an individual group directly to your home screen it wouldn't be a standalone app let a bunch of tabs and so here they are there's a tab that collate all your notifications a tab for discovering new groups and a tab for settings Facebook isn't getting rid of the groups in the main app unlike what it did with messenger that's probably a relief for those 700 million users but for people who use groups a ton the new app might be better it gives you a chance to better manage all your notifications so you don't miss out on anything from your most important groups but you can skip past the other stuff Facebook was hoping you're gonna use it with your family your groups of friends and maybe even with your significant other and if they're right a few years from now that 700 million might be over a billion that's a lot of pictures of breakfast you