The goal of yunity is to create a mapping platform which will enable the services already offered on a lot of facebook sharing groups to function with a better software, making it much more practical for its users. Of course, we encourage the development of any of these unconditional sharing groups that we do not see as competition, but rather as a common effort for a similar change with different tools, and hopefully the communities that have built on these groups will happily welcome a shift to using a new, well-designed and very functional platform - aka yunity!
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If there is no group in your city and you want to start a new one: Nothing easier than that! Go to your Facebook starting page, click on “Groups” in the navigation bar on the left and then on “Create Group”.
Afterwards, type in the name of the group (e.g. Commyunity Rotterdam) and add your friends. Moreover, you can adjust the privacy settings of the group right away. In the beginning it It makes sense to leave set the to group “public” to increase the awareness. After having reached about 500 members, you should change the group to “closed” so that not everyone can read everything that is being posted. You can choose the group icon as you please. We recommend the heart, the tree or the present. Congratulations, you have now successfully created your own sharing community!
Next, you should change some of the settings:
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Basically, the admin job consists of the following tasks:-
- Recruiting members (only in the beginning)
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- Scanning profiles and allowing new members
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- - be sure to avoid spam bots!
- Looking through posts for rule violations and taking action if required
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- Acting as contact person in case of problems
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- Spreading information of general interest (pinned posts)
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Depending on the size of your group, we recommend different settings and approaches:
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Internal rules for special cases
This is an example of how Share & Care Bamberg decided to settle its internal rules. Your admin board should decide together on which posts they would consider positive, tolerable or simply unacceptable.
Allowed | Tolerated | Prohibited |
Looking for witnesses | Looking for members for fee-based activities (e.g. in clubs and associations) | Reporting crimes (Gipsies, Jehovahs Witnesses, beware of the bad foreigners,…) |
Surveys from local researchers/students | Petitions | Sales via private message (pm) |
Gift coupon codes | Addendum: “Please offer anything” only to be tolerated in individual cases | Raffles, lottery tickets, trial lessons and other kinds of alleged giving |
Requesting things for other people | Giving away small animals (hamsters, fish, etc.) | Giving away animals |
Dating ads |
| Fee-based events (e.g. concerts, sporting games) |
Lost and Found |
| Finder’s reward |
Giving away items that don't belong to you (found in the street, shared with the address) |
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| Posts like: “Where can I get this or that cheap?” |
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