How to Rejoin a Closed or Private Facebook Group
[UPDATE: Facebook has made it much easier to rejoin a group now. However, and here is the key, only an admin can allow you back into the group, and you have to wait 48 hours for the change to go into effect. This allows Facebook’s servers sufficient time to process the request, since it ranks as a low priority on a very busy network. Also, admins can only change the group’s settings (Public, Closed, Private) until it reaches 250 members. After that, the setting lock in.]
One of the best things I’ve done on Facebook is to join a private Facebook Group created by a good friend.
The group is a great way for many of our mutual friends to communicate freely without being “watched” by others with no real or vested interest in our discussions.
Every once in a while, though, someone inadvertently leaves the group by accidentally clicking the “Leave Group” button.
So the question comes up, “How do I get back into a closed or private Facebook group?”
Unfortunately, there is no clear way to get back in.
Getting in the group in the first place requires an invite from an administrator (or the creator) of the group. If the administrator simply tries to re-invite the person back in, the administrator gets a pop-up window that says, “This person has left the group” — an obvious, and clearly not very helpful response.
And once you’ve left, you can’t see or search on the group to re-enter it (that’s part of what makes it private). For all practical purposes, it’s gone.
Facebook itself has no published solution.
However, my friend Jason Dorsey discovered a quick fix. Here’s how it works:
- The administrator of the group opens the group page and copies the group’s full URL. NOTE: Make sure you DO NOT copy the sequence &view=doc, or anything to the right of that sequence. That is all personal user ID information and it will thus block the user from seeing the group URL properly.
- The administrator sends the URL to the individual with instructions to copy the URL into the browser bar and open it.
- When the page opens, it will display an “Ask to join” button for the user to click.
- Once the user clicks on the button, the administrator gets a notification requesting to accept the user into the group.
- The administrator accepts the request.
This seems to be the only working solution to this problem. If you hear of any others, please let me know!!
UPDATE: This solution doesn’t appear to work in all cases, but cheer up! Readers have listed other great workarounds in the comment thread to this post. Check them out, one of these could work for you!
UPDATE 2: Based on the many comments below, this problem still appears to be largely unresolved.
UPDATE 3: The most successful workaround to date appears to be as follows:
- Ask an administrator to make the group “Open” for a brief period. The administrator then quickly informs the user of the group status.
- The user then pings the group with an Add Me request.
- Once the user has been accepted, the administrator closes the group again.
Obviously this is not an ideal workaround but it appears to have succeeded in multiple cases.
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Wow, I was really glad to see this since I had a friend who did just as you mentioned: left our secret group, and then changed her mind. However, we tried your work around and could not get it to work. Whether she clicked the link or pasted the URL into her browser, all she got was her FB Home Page. Was there a particular browser that you got this to work on? Would really love to know so we can try again. I can only assume there has to be something in her computer that is blocking the group’s URL but we have not been able to identify it yet. Thanks for your help.
UPDATE: Hi Alisha, I use Mozilla rather than Internet Explorer, but there is no reason it should not work using any browser. Are you sure you are sending her the private group’s URL? Here’s something that I didn’t list in the original article because I didn’t notice it, I’,m going to go back and edit the article to include this: when you capture the URL of the private group, capture only everything to the left of the sequence &view=doc… This is likely the culprit, since everything to the right of that sequence syncs the page with the user’s personal address information.
Also, if it does in fact open to her home page, maybe the private group is already listed in the left-hand column? If so, she never really left the group. And, the administrator should see a request to accept her if the page actually opens as I have described. I’m continuing to investigate other possible workarounds but for now, this is it. Please keep in contact, I’d like to help you be successful.
I can’t find the &view=doc you are saying..
If you don’t see that extension, that’s fine, you want to avoid it anyway.
yeah it’s realy work bro….. as u told as above, i search through history pages……. finaly i manage got the group link which i already left 3 weeks ago ( 2nd week of december 2011)…. i saw the page appeared and i just click rejoin button to the group and now already part of group member again… thanks for the info, take care
thanks man………rllly works…..
what do I do when I was the admin (the only one) and accidentally deleted myself from the group. How can I get back in, since there is no admin to approve my join-request.IT IS CLOSED GROUP)
Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is recreate the group and reinvite everyone who was in the previous iteration. I group with no admin floats unmanaged in space until Facebook eventually deletes it.
But what do I do when I was the admin (the only one) and accidentally deleted myself from the group. How can I get back in, since there is no admin to approve my join-request. (It is a private group)
Manu, Ouch!! If you were the only admin I am afraid you have set that group out into space all by itself. Facebook support may be able to help you but they may not. Have you tried accessing it through the Advertising tab at the bottom of the page?
When you left the group you would have normally gotten a message to the effect of- as the last admin, your leaving the group will close the group… I’d be surprised if the group still exists with no admin. Better to start a new one and invite the folks into it.
The admini has to “OPEN” the group to every one, once is open, put the URL in your bowser and join the group again
oh… Iam sorry Manu I answer the wrong question, I just did that and I just put a hole story today on how I got back to be the administrator after deleting my self when I was the only administrator of a closed group.
Hi there, I’ve just done the same thing! can you tell me how you got back in? I’ve sent a request to facebook, thanks
Read through the comments for some good suggestions if the article doesn’t provide enough detail
I asked the group’s url from the admin and he sent me this:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_185022848187339&ap=1
When you click on it, it sends you to the homepage. Did he get the wrong url or something like that?
Actually, I decided to just go ahead and create my own private group to see what the url looks like to the admin of the group. WIth me being the admin of this private group, I don’t see any &view=doc in all the url.
Somehow I don’t think the admin sent you the correct URL. Did he or she copy and paste it from the group’s site, or from a pointer to the group’s site?
(Can’t reply directly to your reply for some reason). I’m pretty sure he went to the group, and just copied the url. Try making a private group on your own and check the url when you go to it. Perhaps facebook changed and this trick isn’t possible anymore. Either way, when I go to the private group I made I also just click on it on the left bar of the home page, and from there copy the url. The url doesn’t show any &view=doc.
(Can’t reply directly to your reply for some reason). I’m pretty sure he went to the group, and just copied the url. Try making a private group on your own and check the url when you go to it. Perhaps facebook changed and this trick isn’t possible anymore. Either way, when I go to the private group I made I also just click on it on the left bar of the home page, and from there copy the url. The url doesn’t show any &view=doc.
Thank you for your advice. I can add my friend return to our group. I try do this about a hour before see your advice.
Ehm, this might be a rather amateurish work-around, but I can tell you how we just solved the problem. I temporarily made the group public and the accidentally deleted member was able to send a new join request. However, I as admin was unable to approve him in. I got a notification but no link to “approve” the request. Interestingly, another group member – not an admin – WAS able to approve his request. So he seems to be back in.
I hope this is not just a fluke but a real solution?!
Sounds scary…were you able to get your admin privileges back after making the group private again?
this works til the group has 250 or less members.. after 250+ members in group. u cant change anything for the group privacy settings.
Hey Silicon,
Thanks for the help. It actually didn’t work for me with the URL system. (I’m using Google Chrome and it would just take me back to the home page).
What worked for me was to deactivate my account and then just reactivate it. Then I could be added back into it no problem.
Thanks again.
Wow, another novel workaround!! Did you lose any of your data or photos by deactivating your account? Good to see that you were able to make it work!
It didn’t work for me 😦
Sorry to hear that. Please check out the other solutions offered in the comments to this post.
@ Troy… I would love more info on the deactivate/reactivate route… The problem what we are having is what’s shown below… No exactly as your seemed. I am the Admin, my member left in frustration after a minor conflict with another member. My removed member can see the group, and has asked to re-join, but I am unable to accept her. Her request is there, but when I click to approve, it tells me that “the user is not a member of the group” or something very similar. I have “opened” the group and tried everything. Need help…
once you leave a group the Administrator cannot re-join anyone. What you have to do is to make the group “open to any one/public”, and send her the URL of the group. She has to put the URL in her browser and the option of join will be there again. Then you closed the group again. I hope it works for you
guys…facebook has officially published solution to this issue in their FAQ section…
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=18896
It doesn’t allow you to resend the invite. However, the member can request to join the group again which admins can then approve.
@ankur, yes and it’s likely we’ve all seen that ‘official’ word. It makes sense that FB Help would be the first place one would go to for an answer to this question. However, as you can see from the many comments above, the solution was not as simple as Facebook’s response. In the case of my friend, even when I, as admin of the group changed the status to ‘Open’, she could not even see the Group to make the request. The group’s URL was also ineffective since whether she clicked the link, or copied into her browser, it only took her back to her FB home page. As a last resort today, I again changed the group’s status back to ‘Open’. I then had my friend clear her cache and reboot, but unfortunately she still could not see the Group. I did however send her the Group’s URL again after she rebooted and this time it worked. She was able to click on the link to the group and make the request to rejoin, which of course I accepted before immediately changing the group’s status back to ‘Secret’. So my only advice to those still going through this problem is to keep trying. Thanks Cowboy for at least getting us on the right track, lol.
it didn’t work for me too,unfortunately my friend ( admin for the group) said,it appeared to say that i left the group,and when i ask to join,and my request had been sent,but my friend can’t approve it because it states that i’m not a member for that group.
have you got d solution??? plz tell me… m fracing d same prob….
Friends,
i am facing same prob.
sequence is.
– i had 2 profiles and both were admins of a closed group having 125 memebers
– profile A, i left the group accidently
– Profile B, still admin and working fine
– i sent request again to closed group, as i can found this group in search, and my request sent successfully
– through profile B, when i try to allow or accept request, it’s saying “the memeber is not part of group”
– when through profile B, try to add profile A manually, it’s saying, memeber already left the group
– i tried all above solution, make group open, even send group link to profie A etc. but nothing worked.
any help would be appreciated…
Thanks,
Dhams
Same problem for us, but our group i OPEN.
A member left, but cannot be a member again.
Same as Valterp.
Facebook’s various updates have only served to make it more difficult to navigate and less user friendly. I’m getting very fed up with it.
ma frnd has sent me d request 2 rejoin, ( m admin f d grup) bt ven i xcept it, it says user is not d member of d group…. how 2 xcept it????
hi! i am a group administrator and what i did was, i edited the group from secret to “open” privacy. (edit groups)
after saving the changes, ask the ex-member to search the said group, then ask to be rejoined. 🙂
then you may set it up to “secret” again.
so, if you’re an ex member of a group you may ask the admin to do what i did, if you’re aware who he is.
Put the group to open for a few seconds while I had the person on instant messanger while they found the group it led to an easy invite and accept. My secret group was only open for about 20 seconds then changed back to secret.
Hello, it worked for me as well , let me clear one thing here, it your group if secret than it will not open in other browser, so admin has to edit group setting, 1st make it an open group than sent it URL to other person, when he orshe joins back than u can change it setting. i just done that,
Thank you for the information it really worked for me and I am going to tell you how:
1) I was the administrator of a group and I left leaving the group with out an administrator. I used one of the members password and user name to go into the group. And TODAY, the group allows any one become an administrator, once youenter the group there is an option that says : BECOME ADMINISTRATOR, so I did that with the member password.
2)The group was CLOSED so as administrator I “opened” the group to every one
3)I went back to my FaceBook and went to the group with the URL information I learned here, so I was able to join the group again
4)I went to the member that became administrator Facebook, and made myself Administrator
and now I am the administrartor back again!!
5)If your case is diferent now, and you know the administrator, tell the administrator to “open the group to every one, go to your browser & put the URL in your browser and join the group
I hope this works for you
loved how every one is trying to come over the facebook new group problems.. But many things like changing privacy and stuffs by admin works till the group has membership 250 or less.. After that group chat, group settings and everything will be disabled.
Wow that’s interesting. I was unaware of the 250 ceiling, I wonder what the rationale is for that?
This is my problem. I have a group with 500+ members that is secret. I can’t open it up to let people readd themselves because then I can’t move it back to secret. Any solution? It needs to be secret because of where we are located.
You are quite right, any group larger than 200 members cannot be reconfigured to Private once it has been listed as Open. The good news is, there should be no need to open it. Have an admin invite the member back into the group, and then wait for 72 hours. It usually takes a while for Facebook’s servers to make the adjustment since it is a low priority request.
You can Re-join the group you left,Just by changing your name in “Account Settings” of your facebook profile.And Ask the group to join!
The admini has to “OPEN” the group to every one, once is open, put the URL in your bowser and join the group again. It works. Thanks EMA
Our admin of secret group left the grp without making any one else the admin, now he wants to rejoin the group, how can he do the same…
Sanket, you have a real problem there. Your secret group is more or less orbiting in space with no hope at this point. You could petition Facebook to make you an admin, but I am not sure they would respond. Let me know if you find a solution, so far I have not heard of a fix for your situation.
Thank You Sir,
I thought we are in problem….now the solution left with all of us is to make a new group as neither the admin can join nor approve others to be a member.
Once again I thank you for the courtesy extended.
Regards
Sanket Karkhanis
Counseling Psychologist
Sorry to hear you had this difficulty. I hope your group is able to quickly reorganize and start anew. Best wishes!
Sir, I have also same problem, I was the admin of the secret group and by mistaken I clicked the “leave group” option and now I can’t able to get in to group.
Bhavnish, hopefully there is another administrator in your group who can get you back in. If not, you may have to recreate the group and reinvite all participants, because your old group is essentially without administration and therefore free-floating in space.
Hello everyone,
I am the admin of 2 groups. Unfortunately, I was accessing the group from a cyber cafe. I exactly don’t know the fact behind when I left cyber with my profile on without signing out 😦 I think someone has made me to leave a group among those 2 and I uses to be an administrator to both of these groups. Now, I could able to rejoin this group but how to get my administrator ship back? I receive notifications and requests for joining to this group from others even I can even approve them. But, I am not finding anyone with Admin status yet and everyone is a member their. I even not finding edit group option which is their in the other group where I am an Admin. So, desperately I need my Admin status back. Pls help 😦
I have google chrome, Mozilla fire fox and Internet explorer browsers. Can I solve by any of these? Should i need to remove Https browsing option in Google crome?????
Difficult situation. If no one was ever assigned as the admin of the group, it may be possible for someone else to assign themselves as the admin and then add you as another admin. However, if that doesn’t work, your only other solution is to create a new group and move everyone over to it. Sorry that happened. Facebook doesn’t do a heck of a lot to support groups and I doubt if you will find them helpful in resolving this problem.
Yeah.. sending the secret group’s link and asking to rejoin works! Hurayyyyyyyyyyyy
I have create a group and i was only one admin, but i remove my name from admin. How i can become again admin of same group??..
You will have to recreate the group. Since there is no admin there is no way for anyone to approve another person becoming an admin. Facebook eventually just deletes groups that have no admin.
if i leave a “secret group” will the admin(s) be notified? just wondering, thanks
No if your secret group is sufficiently large the admins may never notice if you are gone.
If you know someone in the group, have them post a status with the group tagged. Then when you click on the tag it will bring you to the group’s page and there is a button that says “Ask to Rejoin” that you can click.
That doesn’t appear to work with private groups, unfortunately.
hi
i’m running a group on facebook and i am facing problem wi=hich relate to the posts sequence normly posts will be shown in time and date sequance but on my page there is no sequance which posts have more comments are recntly commented its shown on top as according to uper saying waths i do plz help me.
thanks
Abdul Wahab
If I understand your question correctly, I am not seeing the same problem you are. Each post to a group is time and date stamped and all comments to that post are also timestamped. Can you tell me what you are seeing that is different, or if not, how this is an issue?
my group is having a secret groups…the procedure is same for me 2.
Had the same problem. I left a secret group where I was the Administrator because of an issue. When it was resolved, I decided to re-join the group. Like what’s said in this blog, I couldn’t search the group at all and the new Administrator couldn’t add me back since I left the group. So I asked him to send me the URL of the secret group and with no trouble, I was able to re-join the group with the new Administrator approving my re-join request. I was surprised it was that easy. Maybe it’s just luck. Dunno. But I hope you guys with the same problem can fix it just like I was able to. 🙂
I find it absolutely appalling that Facebook would deliberately set it up this way, apparently oblivious to the obvious problems it would create.
Okay, fine…you’ve assumed that because I left the group, I also want to block invitations from the group. Well, I never asked you to block invitations, but I can at least see how you would conclude I might want that. But to not include a feature giving me the option of UNBLOCKING it? Why? WHY WHY WHY? There’s no good reason for that. And while I can accept the fact that they were too shortsighted (“stupid” would probably be a better word) to anticipate this resulting issue, there’s ABSOLUTELY no way they’re still unaware of it. I know they’ve received complaints, and I know it would be very easy to fix. So someone has simply decided “screw ’em, we’re not going to fix it because we just don’t feel like it.”
And please spare me the usual “blah blah blah it’s a free site don’t complain.” That gets a little old. Do they want me to use their free site or not? Why go out of your way to inconvenience users?
This just happened. Someone left my group by accident. They messaged me and asked me if I could add them back to the group and it would not allow me too. I searched members and it still showed her in the group and when I tried to remove her from the group it stated she was not a member of the group. So what I did was send her a link to the group (Because it is a hidden group) and there was a join group button available to her. She clicked Join Group and I then went to the group and accepted her. Problem solved =)
Man, you are a Genius!
Cool..!!!!! i jus cant imagine myself being back in my own grp..!!!
thanks all :):):)
Hello
Not entirely related, but would a facebook account with settings to private, not show up on the list of group members?
Unfortunately the group I’m a member of has a few members who are there for spam purposes, and searching for their name on the list isnt showing their account. Does anyone know how to remove them?
They are REALLY annoying – they respond to every post with spam.
TIA!
It is possible to spy on a group and I am not going to explain that here. Phishing of groups is also obviously possible. Facebook insists on certain rules of behavior on its site and these rules must be followed within groups as well. If you suspect a user is phishing or spamming a group, report the user by clicking on the report feature on the right side of the post. Just hover y9our cursor over the post until that feature appears.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/nameofgroup/
Send the above link to the member who wants to re-join the group. It does not matter if the ceiling of 250 has been exceeded. It worked for me!
That link appears to be useless, it simply routes the user back to Facebook.
I have not read all the comments but the only way I have found to let people in who have left is to “go public” for a second while they are on at the same time I am. It is a giant PITA but it works and then the group is searchable to them and they are able to ask to join. I always let the group know so that the topics can be favorable to others seeing… 🙂
That’s the only consistently workable solution i have found as well, thanks for chiming in!
hi, i m going to do this.
im one of the admin of the group.
best of luck 4 me,siliconcowboy.
Let me know how it works.
hi, what is groups URL, and how can i get them.
When you are in a Facebook group, the URL for that group shows up in the search bar at the top of your screen. If you click on that bar to highlight the URL, you can then capture it by typing Ctrl + C. YOu can then paste it anywhere you need it by typing Ctrl + V (without the plus sign in both instances). I hope that wasn’t too remedial.
hey can anyone other than the admin be able to accept my request to join the group which i came out of?
Only admins can approve. That’s a standard mechanism for achieving civility within a group.
thanku so much…
Copy, pasting and sending the groups URL to the former member just worked for me. One of our members ejected herself from our private, secret group and I sent her the URL. She was able to request to join and I approved it.
It seems like you have to be logged out of fb for the url to work. I had a friend send me the link of the group and it was only refreshing the fb page I was on. Then I logged out of fb and copied the url. I was aked to login, but it took me to the private group’s page and I was able to send a join request.
love you! thanks for the help!
Hi
I am having similar problems with a group I admin. One of the members who was previously able to see and post to the group suddenly stopped being able to post. The group still listed her as a member but her account wasn’t behaving as if she was. The group was open/public at this time. She sent a request to join but the email I received didn’t contain a link and there was no sign of the request on the group page (presumably because it thought she was already a member).
I tried making her user an admin but this didn’t help.
I tried to delete her user so that we could re-add her but facebook just claimed that she wan’t a member (in spite of the fact she was listed in the member list).
Then for another reason I made the group secret at which point the member in question could not see the group at all, let alone post to it.
I then reopened the group and lo and behold her user could now see AND post to the group. If I make the group secret again she can no longer see or post.
The group ideally needs to be secret, any ideas how I can achieve this without cutting the member off?
I have tried making her an admin again but that doesn’t seem to help.
Many thanks in advance….
Judy, you’ve tried a number of different things, some of which would have worked if you hadn’t done the others. Let me explain. By opening the group and allowing her to re-enter, you’ve correctly gotten her through the doorway. However, since you had previously deleted her from the secret group, she disappears whenever the group is made secret. This is because the admin command for deleting a user trumps a request to rejoin. The trick is to find a way to reverse the admin command, which you will probably need to do in open group mode. I would suggest that you have an admin add the user to the group in the ‘add user’ box, then close the group again. Then, don’t do anything relative to that user for 14 days. This gives Facebook enough time to process and authenticate your request. Please let me know if this works.
Many thanks, I’ll give that a try and let you know how I get on.
dude but what do you do to rejoin a secret group with more than 250 people because even the administrator cant change the privacy settings.
I’m going to have to re-write or update this article. Facebook has made it much easier to rejoin a group now. However, and here is the key, only an admin can allow you back into the group, and you have to wait 48 hours for the change to go into effect. This allows Facebook’s servers sufficient time to process the request, since it ranks as a low priority on a very busy network.
And yes, you are right, admins can set the group as open, closed or private only until it reaches 250 members. After that, the group’s setting locks.
I was SO happy when a friend recommended me to look into this page! I am admin. in a secret group and a previous member wish to come back into the group. I have tryed EVERYTHING, including all the solutions, mentioned above – and still she cannot enter. She have sent multiple requests to rejoin – and I simply do NOT get these requests! I am quite tired of it – and I never understood the purpose of making it so difficult to change ones mind. I would appriciate ALL possible new solutions… Thx very much
I creat a group and then leave it. Now i can’t get in. So what should i do?
Were you the only admin of the group or did you appoint anyone else as an admin? If the latter, that person can help you get back in.
copy and paste the url inside the group worked fine.. I did it from facebook messenger as a link to the facebook members messenger and they clicked and got the ask to join page..
and that was with a group of 550.. over the 250 limit.. basically your directing them to the page.. so from while your in the group .. copy the url from you address bar and paste it in the messenger to the facebook member so they can find the group.. then since they aren’t a member they can ask to join from that page.. great fix.. helped alot..
Van egy problémám. Van egy saját privát oldalam, ahol az ismerősök száma elérte az 5000 főt. Ezért nem enged többet felvenni, amit megértek. Csináltam egy csoportot Michael Jackson magic and madness, linkje http://www.facebook.com/groups/383078525047041. Az a baj, ha új ismerősök jelölnek be nem tudom felvenni őket, mert a privát oldalra akarja felvenni őket, visszaírja, hogy nem lehet ismerősöm, mert az ismerőseim száma elérte az 5000 főt. Szeretnék segítséget kérni, hogy a csoportba tudjam felvenni az új barát jelöléseket. Nagyon sokat gondolkodtam már, de sehogy sem sikerül megjavítanom a problémát. Szeretnék ebbe segítséget kérni, hogy az új tagok a csoporthoz kerülhessenek és ne a privát oldalamra. Várom válaszukat, köszönettel Jávorné Felföldi Erika
Ha teljesen lezárják a privát oldalamat, hogy csak megnézni lehessen nem probléma. A csoportot szeretném tovább vinni. Köszönettel Jávorné Felföldi Erika
Sir,I left my own group accidently.How can i rejoin???
Send a message to the administrator asking them to send you an invitation to rejoin, or send you the URL of the group so you can make that request yourself. Then just wait for up to three days for the request to be processed.
I accidentally left a group that I was the admin for and I figured out how to get back in. I called a friend that was in the group, and had her add me. On the right side of the page, it said “this page needs and admin, suggest one”…click on it and then click on “make me the admin”. This worked for me.
Hi Dan,
Though I am aware the question I am gonna ask does not relate to the current topic thread, however, since it pertains to secret group, I take the liberty to ask you. You may change the thread if you feel so.
The question is, I am member of a secret group (I am not admin) and from yesterday, whenever anyone including my admin tries to post, we get “Unable to post. Please retry after some time”. We tried to make group closed but no effect. wonder if you have a clue to solution. I have reported to face book, and hope they solve ?
Nikhil
Have the admin check the group’s settings. They may have been inadvertently changed to allow only the admin to post to the group. You will want to change it back to allow all members to post.
Thank You so much Dan!!! ur idea really worked…:))
Hi!! i was removed from one group.. i dont know why.. even i cant find that group in search again.. i think i was rejected by admin.. is there any way to find that group for rejoin???
If the admin removed you, there is little chance of rejoining unless you have a contact within the group who can appeal on your behalf for your reinstatement. Good luck!
This worked great! Have been trying to figure it out for a while and this worked instantly!
Help! I am the admin to a Facebook closed Group and I accidentally cancelled myself out of it. The group still exists, but I cannot access it because it was closed. I asked to join, but I cannot access the group because it is closed.
Any way to get back in? I am the only admin to this group!
Thank you!
Here is a suggestion that was offered by a commentor on this thread: “I accidentally left a group that I was the admin for and I figured out how to get back in. I called a friend that was in the group, and had her add me. On the right side of the page, it said “this page needs and admin, suggest one”…click on it and then click on “make me the admin”. This worked for me.”
Please let me know if this works. You may have to wait for a day or two for the request to go through, since Facebook has to negate your earlier request to leave the group.
i opened a group made 2 more admins,3 alltogether,when i went into my other name on fb which im admin to group i can delete the admin that opened the group,how come the other admins has that power to delete the group owner?
Facebook does not have any facility for giving one admin a higher status than any other.
pkx hack one group my love is in it and the admin do not add me in the group please do something plx
Group membership is entirely up to the admin. It’s best to be respectful of the group’s decision on such matters.
DATI AKONG MIYEMBRO NJK CLOSED GROUP PANSAMANTALA AKONG UMALIS SA GRUPO NAG OUT AKO SA GRUPO NGA UN GUSTO KO NANG BUMALIK KASO D KO MAKITA ANG MGA KAIBIGAN KO AT GRUPONG INIWANAN KO PAAANO MULING BUMALIK AT MAKABALIK NG MABILIS NG HINDI ME NAHIHIRAPAN
When trying to invite the person back into the group as you said it didn’t work but by clicking to invite them through the suggested members area, it seemed to… A loophole or helpful bug in the system I suppose…
when i send friend req to my friend but cant recive the frnd req
i send msg to my frnd bt she receive the message bt she can reply .my message or she can search my id nd when i send message facebook show her mesage You cannot reply to this conversation. Either the recipient’s account was disabled or its privacy settings don’t allow replies.
Your friend is clearly not making herself available to help you. Perhaps you can get someone else to assist.
plz tell me clearly . plz help me sir ,plz tell me in detail wht cn i do ..my friend also upset .
sir i search my friend bt my friend cant search my id bt she recieve only msg nt rply nt search.
Dan Holden plz tell me wht cn i do
Yey it works. Thanks
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I will definitely come back again.
I’d be interested to know where you are seeing typos but…nah, I’m just kidding.
this is the URL to my FB group I created and spent a yr and a half running a Admin I thought I could trust deleted all adminst and took over the group as her own . This is very hard for me as I have medical problems that keep me at home this was a daily outlet for me I had the group up to 10,000 members when she deleted us please tell me what to do I feel like someone stole my kid its that heart wrenching to me
This is an unfortunate situation, I am sorry for your loss. Outside of getting another admin to add you back into the group and allowing you to reassert your admin rights and block the other individual from participation in the group, I am not sure what else you can do. My advice: if the group is that dysfunctional, maybe it’s time to move on anyway. Those who truly care about you will follow.
Thanks Dan for sharing this info with us and i can say that it has worked everytime i’ve done it (about 8 times for friends or myself) the only thing that i would add to everyone that had a problem and had not been able to solve their situation is that “the group” setting that you are trying to get back to…”must be set to open” for at least the time that it would take to copy the “URL” i know there is private issue here….but the time that it would take you to set the group to open and then copy the URL and put it back to the previous setting it was it could be only 30 seconds max…so relax and follow this advice and you will be on your way back to join your group. And as Dan said you must be the administrator of the group or have the administrator work with you on this.
Good luck!
Contact Facebook and explain the situation, they are able to see who the creator of the group is and re-instate you. I have seen them do this already for someone else in the same predicament. “-)
True, but it could take a while.
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I have been banned from a group for adding members… which I know is the prerogative of any administrator..I have referred many people to this group provided links given admininstrators name to them but as a group we were never told how to make a proper referral.. at 60 years of age I really don’t understand how I, as a non administrator, could possibly be adding new members to the group. I assumed that when I gave my link to someone they would receive a request to join prompt.. but apparently somehow they have been able to join without a request page appearing. I had no idea I was admitting them..Is this a group setting problem or a problem in how I am making my referrals… thank you so much for your help in this. I certainly wasn’t trying to back door some one it.. others may be making the same mistake.
It’s likely that there is more than one administrator in the group, and at least one of those other administrators is approving your referrals without advising the other admins. Or, you may actually have been one of the administrators yourself, which would have made any referral by you an automatic approval. In any case, it’s generally not a wise idea to add multiple people without first asking the admin if this is appropriate. Especially in discussion groups with seemingly important business or dialog, such activity could easily be perceived as malicious it if isn’t first cleared by those in charge.
I have a problem,
I have the URL of my old private group, but I don’t remember who was the name of Admin. Unfortunely the URL don’t show me this because it’s a private group.
How could I find the name of Admin of private Group with only the URL?
Good question! I don’t have a ready answer but I will look into it, thanks!
Here’s my issue. I have a “secret” FB group that is well over 600 members. I have 2 member that left a bit ago and want back in. I used to be able to send them the link and they could request to rejoin not that long ago and now they can’t see the link. They also don’t get the email invite that I did through FB on my group, either. What do I do? Are they never going to be able to get back in?
Read through the post and comments, there are several possible routes. One is to temporarily – for a few seconds if necessary = reclassify the group from ‘secret’ to a more visible setting. This reduces the security settings and allows people to rejoin using the procedure above.
I can’t go back to any other setting, but secret, Dan. That’s my dilemma. I refuse to delete hundreds of members just to get a few back on. It’s ridiculous!
I have both tried to share the url of the group, which no one sees anymore. And also invite them back via the email function with Facebook. That only sometimes works. I have tried everything I can, except deleting members. And, as I said above this…I refuse to do that just to get a handful of ppl back.
I posted a warning and pinned it to the top of my group telling the members that once they leave I may not be able to get them back in again…so to be absolutely sure they are wanting to go for good.
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Some readers have suggested trying to get back in through a mobile device, this seems to bypass the stricter PC-based rule set. Let me know if this works.
ShadowLady,
Try sending the former members a PM with the group’s URL and have them click the URL while on a *mobile* device. That’s the only way we could get one person back in after they left accidentally.
*memberS <—ooops
Does the administator have to copy the URL or can a group member copy it too?
The way this used to work only the admin could enact this procedure.
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i am the admin of a secret group and i blocked people from re adding me to that group,when i moved out of it,so is there any solutions to get back that group???
See if you can get another ally designated as an admin.
Our group was accidentally switched over to Secret.., and now it looks like we need to take out 100 members, before we can reset or make any other privacy changes. Thats all clear, but what happens to all those posts that the dropped members have made? Will they disappear in the process? Any other damage that will happen during this process?
Good question, does anybody have any experience with this?
I stumbled across this blog entry while searching for ways to re-add a former member to a Secret group. The former member tried clicking the link on a PC and got the error the page doesn’t exist. I attempted to re-add her and received the error that I “could not add an old member of the group who hasn’t requested to join the group again”. Changing our group back to Closed was not an option as we are over the 250 member cap for that group privacy setting change to be available.
A fellow admin discovered that the former member had to click the group’s URL from a PM on a *mobile* device. Suffice to say the former member is a full member once again. Could the solution be any more obscure? Sheesh.
In regards to the content that a former member posted, it should still be there. I cleaned out inactive members and can still find the rare post the inactive member made by using the group search feature with their name as the search term. That’s assuming the search function is actually functional at the time. 😛
Erm, for clarity that “rare post” description above was a reference to how inactive the removed member was, not FB deleting posts inconsistently.
no you have to search to find their posts and delete them
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I am the administrator of a group folder which I accidentally left. So how can I rejoin the group if an administrator is not available?
That’s a huge problem. Unless there is another administrator, the group may just float off into space unattended. Some readers have suggested trying to get through on a mobile device. This apparently allows you to bypass some of the PC rule set.
I’ve got a problem man. I left a secret group and i didn’t see the box that says “prevent people from re-ading you”, and it was maked, i didn’t see it, i moved forward and left the group, now i want to get back in it, the manager tried to re-ad me but he failed, how can i rejoin the group?
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What about hijacked groups? Do you know if Facebook respond to or deal with rogue admin who remove the creator of the group? Any way to deal with this?
It’s unfortunate, but that does happen. The original admin can appeal to Facebook for assistance but there’s no guarantee that Facebook will do anything on his or her behalf.
It defently worked, thanks!
I left a secret group and i didn’t see the box that says “prevent people from re-ading you”, and it was maked, i didn’t see it, i moved forward and left the group, now i want to get back in it, the manager tried to re-ad me but he failed, how can i rejoin the group?
I have not seen a setting that prevents people from re-adding you to a group but I suppose it could exist. I can’t imagine that it would be clicked yes by default. I am skeptical at this point, I wonder if the group manager may have other intentions.
It is there to prevent others from re-adding you if you leave and it’s set yes to default. I know this for a fact, have seen it myself and know this is what prevented me from re-adding ppl who leave and want to return. Whether they have since changed it, I don’t know. I had to restart a group to make it “Closed” instead of “Secret” to get these ppl back in.
what if I opened the group for all and the made it secret again….will all my post thereafter be read by non group members
There’s always a risk to opening a group, even momentarily in some cases. However that tactic has been used with success. It’s best if done in a coordinated effort, e.g., while texting your target add to make a request.