Facebook groups are a lot like bars: every one has its own vibe, its own regulars, and its own unspoken rules. Some feel cozy and welcoming, others… a little chaotic. Here, the clientele also shapes the experience—along with the things they say out loud without a second thought. Spend enough time scrolling the platform, and you’ll see everything. So, as a gentle reminder to be mindful of where you hang out online, we’ve created this list of amusing but also slightly concerning things people shared in Facebook groups.

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#1 Shared This On My Local Town Facebook Page. You All Should Enjoy It Too

#2 Someone In My Facebook Group Had A Gofer Move In Their Yard, So They Made Him At Home

These online communities can shape people’s offline behavior as well. For example, research by the Guardian revealed that a network of far-right Facebook groups is exposing hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist and extremist disinformation.

Run by otherwise ordinary members of the public – many of whom are of retirement age – the groups are a hotbed of hardline anti-immigration and racist language, where online hate goes apparently unchecked.

Experts who reviewed the Guardian’s months-long data project said such groups help to create an online environment that can radicalize people into taking extreme actions, such as last year’s summer riots.

The network was exposed just weeks after 150,000 protesters from all over the country descended on London for a far-right protest, the scale of which dwarfed police estimates and whose size and toxicity shocked politicians.

#3 Wasn’t Flat Doesn’t Moon

#4 Local Facebook Gardening Group. Found This Hilarious Post In My Local Gardening Page. Figured It Was Too Funny To Keep To Myself

#5 I’m In A Weird Second-Hand Finds Group On Facebook, And This Woman Has The Actual Falkor From Never Ending Story In Her Garage

The Guardian’s data projects team identified the groups from the profiles of participants in the riots. From them emerged an ecosystem where mainstream politicians are described as “treacherous” “traitors” and the police engage in “two-tier” justice.

The Guardian analyzed more than 51,000 text posts from three of the largest public groups in the network.

This found hundreds of concerning posts that experts said were peppered with misinformation and conspiracy theories, containing far-right tropes, the use of racist slurs, and evidence of white nativism.

Even small online groups can set a tone that spreads widely.

#6 Baby Deer

#7 Post From My Neighborhood Facebook Group. I Am Never Leaving This State. God Bless Texas

#8 This Is My Favorite Facebook Group

#9 From The Facebook Group

A key element of a group’s success is the admins, and they often come from different social backgrounds.

Most of the admins the Guardian contacted would not speak on the record, but from her doorstep in a Leicestershire village, one, who moderates six groups with nearly 400,000 members between them, said far-right users were “deleted and blocked” from the groups.

However, the investigation found swathes of extreme far-right posts, including disinformation and well-known debunked conspiracy narratives, some of which were spread word-for-word or with slight variations in writing across multiple connected groups.

Group rules and moderation aren’t always enough to stop influence from spreading.

#10 A Funny Event That Happened Earlier This Week In Our Local Facebook Community Group

#11 Small Town Facebook Groups Are My Favorite

#12 Vans

#13 Recent Car Theft In The Area Has The Local Facebook Group On High Alert

Immigrants come in for the most vituperative language, including demonizing and dehumanizing slurs: “criminals,” “parasites,” and so on.

The Guardian’s investigation into these vastly popular groups cast new light on the scale of far-right disinformation, which appears to be disseminated at an industrial scale on social media.

The content shared in the groups also raises new concerns about moderation policies, even though Meta had already announced sweeping changes to its content moderation policies.

Online communities can amplify dangerous ideas even when platforms try to intervene.

#14 I Think Entomologists Are The Happiest Academics In Any Field

#15 Facebook Gem

#16 Someone In My Neighborhood Picked Up A Coyote, Thinking That It Was A Stray Dog

#17 A Person In My Local Facebook Group Wants Someone To Pay Them A Thousand Dollars To Remove Their Old Deck

Pretty sure you’re supposed to pay people for the services you want, not vice versa.

Dr. Julia Ebner, a radicalization researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and an expert on online radicalization, said such spaces can act as breeding grounds for extremist ideologies and “definitely play a role in the radicalization of individuals”.

“What is new is that the online spaces amplify a lot of these dynamics,” she said.

“The algorithmic amplification, the speed at which people can end up in a radicalization engine. Then there are the new technologies from fabricated videos to deepfakes to bot automation.”

#18 This Elderly Woman Posted This In My Local Buy Nothing Group

She’s never posted anything there before, so she hasn’t interacted with the group. This is a photo of her husband wearing a wedding dress. The whole thing has nothing to do with Buy Nothing. I have no clue why she posted it there.

#19 One Of My Many Hobbies Is Trolling The Karen’s And Other Folk In My Neighborhood Facebook Group

#20 I Found This On A Facebook Group Page. I Found It Funny And Had To Share

#21 This Story From A Local Community Facebook Page Is Amazing

The digital age means that people trust the content produced or shared by individual accounts in groups that might, at first glance, seem inconsequential and even fun — like a space for mushroom-picking enthusiasts — regardless of their ideological leanings, more than they tend to trust established institutions’ accounts. And that’s inherently dangerous.

It’s a reminder that internet culture can shape what people believe — even in spaces that seem harmless.

#22 Posted On A Neighborhood Facebook Group

#23 What Is This?

Just came across a wild listing in my city’s Facebook group. I’m half convinced it’s satire, given all the horrible listings that have been going around.

#24 Seen On My Local Neighborhood Facebook Page

#25 Saw This On Facebook. That’s Amazing

#26 Not All Heroes Wear Capes

#27 Posted In A Crochet Facebook Group Talking About “Cool Grandmas” And Their Awesome Crochet. Comments All Positive, But No One Realizes It’s AI?

The hands are weird, the faces are giving me horror movie vibes, and the dresses just seem impossible.

#28 The Local Facebook Group Is Going Wild Tonight

#29 Found This For Sale Listing In One Of My Local Community Groups

#30 Posted On A Facebook Wedding Planning Group I Am In

#31 When Someone Had To Advertise Their Phone Without Uploading A Picture Of It

#32 Stolen From A Facebook Group

#33 Found This Post On A Local Facebook Entrepreneur Group. Serious Or Not, I Thought It Was Funny

#34 Found In A Local Facebook Group

#35 A Funny Find I Found On This Fun Facebook Group

#36 I Fear And Can Only Conclude That The Context Of This Post Is A Heartbreaking One

#37 Posted In My Town’s Facebook Group. He’s Only A Little Desperate

#38 Found This Masterpiece In A Flight Sim Group, And I Haven’t Stopped Laughing

#39 I Stay In My Rural Hometown Facebook Group For The Drama

#40 Got To Love Local Facebook Groups. What’s The Pettiest Thing You’ve Seen On Yours?

#41 I Can’t Even Escape The Fate Of The Leafs On My Favourite Facebook Group

#42 Oh, Please, Will Someone Buy My Garbage

#43 Post In The Neighborhood Facebook Group, But Most Of The Comments Were Explaining/In Support Of Not Having Plain Ol’ Grass

#44 It’s Like That Jonah Hill And Ice Cube Movie

#45 Found On My Local Facebook Group, And I’m Cracking Up

#46 My Local “Foodies” Group Is Completely Unhinged

#47 The Sims Facebook Group Is A Whole Different Gamer Breed

#48 God Bless Local Facebook Groups

#49 I Feel Like Being In A Flat-Earth Group Is Just Cheating

#50 On My Local City’s Facebook Page

#51 The G59 Facebook Group Is An Interesting Place

#52 Local Free Stuff Group

Just saw this today. Apparently, he frequently posts in the group asking for non-essential things and gets mad when people don’t want to give it to him. He also keeps trying to excuse his behavior by saying he’s disabled, which I’m not sure if that’s true or not.

In the comments, he says: “Well, he does need food too”, while in another post, he said that if somebody buys what he wants, he’ll share his food with them.

#53 Saw This For Sale In My Area. I Hope It’s A Joke. But, I’ve Seen Similar Posts On Our Local Facebook Groups, So Hard To Say

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