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Privacy and safety in communities on Messenger
Creating a new community on Messenger is not available to everyone or on all platforms at this time. If you do not have this feature yet, you can learn more about using community chats associated with Facebook groups.
You can create a dedicated community on Messenger to connect with people with shared interests. These communities are managed by community admins, and can be found and joined by anyone on Messenger. They are not Facebook groups, and do not include the same features as Facebook groups.
Since communities on Messenger are designed for more public conversations, they do not follow the same privacy guidelines as your personal messages on Messenger, and instead follow similar privacy guidelines as community chats associated with Facebook groups. For example, keep in mind that all current and future members of your community can see chat content and that Meta reviews content against our Community Standards.
The table below outlines what admins and members can do in communities created on Messenger:
Community admins | Community members | |
---|---|---|
Invite new members to join a community or community chat | ✔ | ✔ |
Create community chats | ✔ | |
Remove someone from a community or community chat | ✔ | |
Approve member requests to a community | ✔ | Depends on settings set by admin |
Delete community chats or communities with no members | ✔ | |
Leave the community or community chats | ✔ | ✔ |
Report content in a community chat | ✔ | ✔ |
Remove content in a community chat | ✔ |
If this feature is available to you, you will see the option to create a new community in the left menu of your Messenger mobile app.