I want to set up a closed Facebook group for a group of professional colleagues to communicate and collaborate on a project. But most of these people are not already Friends on Facebook, nor will they likely want to be. I gather we can invite each other via email, but my central question is: once we're all in a closed group, does that mean we can see personal info and posts about each other that are on our respective individual FB pages? If the answer is yes, I need to find another mechanism as people will understandably not want to participate in the group.
Facebook Groups – Can Non-Friends See Each Other’s Timelines?
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You are currently permitted to post up to 63,206 characters on Facebook in a status group or wall post. There is no difference.
In September, we increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, we're announcing that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters. (1)
Vadim Lavrusik
Journalism Program Manager at Facebook
I set the exact limit to something nerdy. Facebook … Face Boo K … hex(FACE) - K … 64206 - 1000 = 63206 (2)
Bob Baldwin
Engineer at Facebook
(2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-increases-status-update-character-limit-to-63206/5754
You can only send event invitations to friends and group members, not to everyone that likes your page. However, you can post the event on your page, so that it will appear in the News Feed of people that like your page. The post will have a Join link for them to RSVP to the event. If you want more exposure than that there is also the option of purchasing a Facebook ad for the event, in which case numerous targeting options are available (including the ability to target only people that like your page, or friends of those people, or everyone within 50 miles of your city with a certain interest, etc.).
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Best Answer
What you can see on a person's Facebook profile all depends on that person's privacy settings. If you are not friends with them, then you won't see anything that has a privacy setting of "Friends", but you will see things that have a privacy setting of "Public" or possibly "Friends of Friends" (if you are friends with their friends). The fact that you are in the same closed group as them has nothing to do with what you can see on their profile.
I verified this by looking at the profiles of various people (who are not my friends) in the same closed group as me. The only things I could see on their profiles were things that they posted with a privacy setting of "Public".