Hashtags in Facebook, and Closed Groups?

[steve w]

I have a question about the new Hashtags feature on Facebook, and I cannot find a definitive answer to my question anywhere online. Hashtags on Facebook are relatively new and I guess there's not much information on their quirky features yet.

Basically: if you post a message in a Closed or Secret Group that contains a hashtag, does that mean that - unusually - people not members of that group can see not only that message, but also other messages on that thread, the group's name and the identities of the people that posted messages to that thread?

The nearest thing to an answer I can find is in the third paragraph of this page: http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/fa...95813.html

"Facebook has many conversations happening in closed groups. There was no way till now for these conversations to run across groups. With the hashtag you will see conversations on a topic by just clicking the tag."

The Closed Groups feature is there for a reason, sometimes because the group is discussing topics that may be offensive or controversial to certain people if the group were open. And Closed Group's memberships are usually moderated.

Does the Facebook hashtag innovation mean that messages from these groups can now been seen by the public at large?
Unfortunately, Daniel, you are incorrect. Hashtags are the latest feature of Facebook, recently initiated. I imagine at some stage that if the posts of closed groups can be read by "outsiders" to that group, this security issue will become known over time and Facebook will change it. I await the next Facebook security "scandal" when people realise this little new feature. You heard it here first!

[abraXus]

i usually test things like this to help people out, but honestly, testing this just to give you a definative answer would require so much effort....

obviously you cannot just trust what you read on websites, and you cannot even trust the answers you get here on yahoo...

the only real way to get a definitive answer to this complex scenario is to just create the scenario yourself with a few accounts, or find one of your friends who also is interested in knowing the answer, and is willing to spent the hours that it will take to figure out a definitive answer to these questions

and the worst part about new features is that even if you spend all the time figuring it out, facebook could just change it the next day, so you just wasted hours of your life

[Daniel]

There Are no Hashtags Feature of Facebook at this Time That is Used With Twitter so if you See it on Facebook thats Probably Because they have there Twitter Account Connected to Facebook When They have Both Connected Togather it Updates on Both Networks