{"id":878725,"date":"2025-12-18T23:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/meta-is-bringing-usernames-to-facebook-groups\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:25:40","slug":"meta-is-bringing-usernames-to-facebook-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/meta-is-bringing-usernames-to-facebook-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is bringing usernames to Facebook Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has long required Facebook users to post under their real names (with some exceptions), but at least for Facebook Groups, the company is now offering new options. Members of Facebook Groups will now be able to participate under a custom nickname and avatar, rather than being forced to use their real name or post anonymously.You can set a custom nickname via the same toggle that lets you create an anonymous post&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/meta-is-bringing-usernames-to-facebook-groups-231405698.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ian Carlos Campbell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has long required Facebook users to post under their real names (with some exceptions), but at least for Facebook Groups, the company is now offering new options. Members of Facebook Groups will now be able to participate under a custom nickname and avatar, rather than being forced to use their real name or post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2561,192,113446],"tags":[5355,146864],"class_list":{"0":"post-878725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bringing","8":"category-sports","9":"category-usernames","10":"tag-bringing","11":"tag-usernames"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}