Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groups

Re:Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groups by veb on Friday December 28, 2012 @08:31PM (#4980584)

I discovered groups quite recently, and colour me surprised at the kind of stuff that goes in on some of them.

I joined this local car club group, and there's literally hundreds of people every day posting up pictures of their cars asking for... swaps. SWAPS?! This happens in the real world?!

On more investigation there's local groups like "Under $50"... to "Under $1000" - and my gods, they're soooo suspect.

I can understand why they're a big part of people's lives, because they've got a wealth of content!

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Re:Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groups by tomrod on Friday December 28, 2012 @09:12PM (#4980748)

I'm sorry, I don't really understand what you said, but you piqued my interest. What do you mean by "suspect"? What are swaps? What is under $50? What kind of content do they have?

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Re:Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groups by JimmyAustin on Saturday December 29, 2012 @03:15AM (#4981503)

I think the implication was that a large degree of the products available were stolen and Facebook was being used as a method of finding buyers without leaving a paper trail.

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