Facebook groups are a trainwreck in my experience. Even if you try to talk, you get spammed with videos.
 
Facebook groups filled with other Youtubers is worthless. For 90% here the target audience is not other Youtubers but gamers, techies, make-up girls, etc. So you should target on that. IF you find a group on Facebook which is in your target audience then yes, you can use it. But out of experience they do not like spam. So you have to be very active on it.
 
As some of the others have said, finding the right Facebook group is key and being active yourself as a participant in the group adding more to the whole than just posting up youtube links will help your credibility in the group as a contributor to the conversation than being someone who is there just to spam.
 
Depends on your channel type. I am in 3-5 groups that I find to be encouraging because there is an interchange of real dialogue, and not just a dumping ground for links. They will usually have a "daily thread" for link dumping to keep the spam off the group Wall.
 
After hearing of ways to get my channel out there, a friend told me to post in Facebook groups. Seemed to be legit and easy right, well not exactly, posting to Facebook groups isn't going to help you grow. Let me explain, I posted a video to 25 groups, 96% of the people in all those groups decided to just post their links to my post asking me to sub them. So far things are fine, until you realize they, never viewed your video.

Facebook Groups are full of Sub4Sub people, that try to get more subs from new youtubers. This would be good if the they would watch and like your videos to allow you to get the feedback and or watch time needed to get the video out there. But I hear you saying, wait what about the screen shots now... Those are some what okay, but are also lies. They screen shout as soon as they sub and then just as fast unsub your channel. And youtube is too slow to notice and leaves them subbed for a bit before taking it down.

This is not a away to grow, I learned that if I'm going to succeed I will have to to do things the natural way, you should too. Sub4sub groups are a waste of time, and are to be avoided especially in Facebook Groups.

What do you think?
 
It seems that most of the Facebook groups are just dumping grounds for peoples videos. There's way too many people posting and for the most part it all just seems to be sub 4 sub.
 
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