![]() ![]() “They weren’t groups in a social sense – I was just a lurker,” Sasha says. These groups included one of nature-oriented memes and numtot s, or new urbanist memes for transit-oriented teens, which makes her laugh as she says it out loud. “When I go through my newsfeed I want it to be all memes,” she says. ![]() “As less people were using Facebook, the way people found nannies and childcare had to change too.”ĭuring 20, she tried to use groups to make her Facebook feed more funny. For a while, Sasha worked for a nannying agency, where Facebook groups were a chief source of leads for work. Next came the utility pages: communities for neighbourhoods and streets, giving free stuff away when moving house, finding furniture. I didn’t know who Jim Carrey was, but I knew it was supposed to be funny. I’m reminded of one of the first groups I ever joined on Facebook: The Same Picture of Jim Carrey Every Day which was exactly what it said on the tin and nothing more. At the time, Facebook Groups were kind of like “badges”, where “the whole point was that it was named something funny”. A millennial, currently a public servant based in Wellington, she joined Facebook when she was 15. It’s filled with different groups she’s joined and pages she’s liked, a reminder of who she used to be. Sasha’s Facebook newsfeed is an archive of her personal history. ![]() They’re great for buying or getting rid of stuff, but are they also a way to build friendships? In the third part of a series about how we use Facebook now, Shanti Mathias writes about the groups feature. ![]()
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