Finding a Group

One way to find a group is to pay attention to the news feed on the Home page to see what groups your friends are joining. If you see something interesting, check it out. You might also spot an interesting group to join while perusing your friends’ profiles. For serious group exploration, however, you can conduct a search.

You can use the Search field at the top of any Facebook page to search for a specific topic. For example, if you want to find a group related to snow skiing in Colorado or a moms group in your area, you can conduct a quick search and see what’s available. There are groups centered on just about every subject you can think of, and many more you hadn’t thought of at all. Simply click in the Search field and type the keyword or words you want to search for. By default, Facebook lists the top few results in a drop-down list as soon as you type a word. Scroll down the results list that appears and click the See more results link at the bottom. This opens a page displaying all the results, as shown in Figure 11.2, including filters on the left for choosing which type of results you want to view. In this case, click the Groups filter to view only groups.