I admit, I’ve probably gone a bit wild joining Facebook groups. I’m in 79 of them. Not a big deal, except a few of them generate lots of junk in my inbox that get in the way of me corresponding with my actual friends. How do I quit a Facebook group?
Like any other social community, Facebook has lots and lots of affinity groups, marketing groups, and social groups, ranging from shared musical tastes (The Grateful Dead, anyone?) to cinema (Hitchcock fans), geographic venues (Yosemite, Paris) to cars (Ford Mustang), conferences and events to, gosh, just about anything you can imagine.
Most of them seem to be all about signing up and showing some sort of solidarity, frankly, like the amusingly named “IF 10 MILLION JOIN MARC ZOMBERG WILL BRING BACK THE OLD FACEBOOK!” Why is this amusing? Because a million people have joined a group that’s mistitled: it’s Mark Zuckerberg that’s the head of Facebook. 🙂
Nonetheless, as with much of Facebook, there are nuances in the interface that make it a bit tricky to work with. In particular, when I get email from a group, I really wish that there were buttons or links on the bottom of the message letting me go to the group page, report the message as spam and, yes, unsubscribe or quit the group itself.
Instead, you’ll see, it’s a bit of a shlap to get there…
Start out by logging in to Facebook and finding the “Groups” link on the top right menu:
Click on “Groups” and you’ll have a list of recent groups your friends have joined. That’s not what we want, though, so click on “My Groups” on the top right:
Better, but it’s organized by activity and doesn’t show all your groups. Instead, click on the “Show” menu:
Choose “All groups”, then scroll down to the group you want to leave, quit, resign, run madly away from, screaming all the while. One of those. In this example, I’m going to quit Kristen Darkenwald’s “Facebook Marketing: Secret Tips and Tricks” group.
I do this by finding the group in the list:
.. .and clicking on the group name. This gets me to the group info page, where, on the right side, are some useful options:
I click on “Leave Group” and get a quick confirm message:
That’s it. Click on “Remove” and you’ve just left a group.
Now, join the groups you care about and be careful out there. 🙂
Tip: Looking for more help on Facebook? I have quite a bit of Facebook help here on the site and that I also have an Ask Dave Taylor Facebook Fan Page that I invite you to join. Have a question I haven’t answered? Then ask away! 🙂
Indeed with your statement. Facebook spammers often use groups for advertising their products and make some ‘viruses’ where it infects someone’s account and then sends mass of groups invitations to other people.
So when you leave group you have to also choose option to block the future invitations for same.
Thanks for the share!
Adam
Hi
I want to live a groep and I can’t bcoz the is no live the groep link,and I keep getting all this junk mail and is realy mesasing up my life
Plz help I don’t kno what to do
I want to TOTALLY, COMPLETELY, AS IF I NEVER EXISTED quit FACEBOOK. How can this be done immediately without having to not enter it for two full weeks? I need an answer like six months ago. Thank you.
872wr’s comment is correct, all wrong (sadly), since it seems Facebook has updated again.
Here’s how you do it, simply:
1. Find the Groups at the left screen
2. Click “See All”
3. then scroll to the bottom where you’ll see “My Groups” heading, find the group you want to delete (or for easier & quicker way, just press Ctrl + F to FIND the group you want to delete
4. Click the x mark at the right of the group’s name you want to delete, and when asked “Are you sure..”, just click “Leave Group”.
and you’re done.
and yes I agree, this is very super annoying,
Facebook should make the “Delete/Leave” option visible, instead of ‘hiding’ it like this, making things much complicated!
perhaps another ‘smart corporate-ish trick’?…ewww that’s why I hate BIG businesses :/
Hello Dave, wondering how (as admin) I can add someone to a group whose left, but wants to rejoin group?
Hi there,
I’m trying to remove a group from my facebook account. However, the Group link is not available on the right hand corner of my page anymore!
I keep receiving junk messages from these groups and I don’t know how to remove them as i can’t find the link to Groups anymore.
Your help is very much appreciated.
Kindest regards and happy 2011.
Rafed
my last name is actually zomberg (+ one letter, but it’s silent)
All wrong, you have to visit the group page and click on “leave group” on the lower left (strg-f to find it easily).
Btw …Facebook sucks!
Thanks mad dog (post above). He gives the way to leave groups for the new facebook interface.
Perhaps Facebook interface has changed since the above instructions.
How I did it:
Log in
>my account >edit friends
All connections >
list of friends & groups
On the right are X’s
Hit X for the group you want to leave.
This is a “disconnect”.
‘are you sure you want to….?
Hit Remove. Group or friend disappears.
Trying to quit a group. logged into facebook as you described, but the menu you show with applications at left and groups on right doesn’t exist, at least not on my facebook.
What happens to the stuff that I previously wrote on a group wall when I leave a group?
Is it deleted either immediately or later, or does it still stay on there forever?
thank you so much
How do you delete Apps from iPhone? I’ve been downloading apps and after trying them out, realize some of them aren’t for me.
I can easily delete from the iPhone, but they are still in my iTunes/Library/Applications.