Hi Brajesh,

I think of it in very simple terms. Think site friendships and group friendships. In the group, the only restrictions are:
* The user is blocked (moderation tool)
* The user has opted out of receiving group friendships for THIS SPECIFIC GROUP

When the person leaves the GROUP, they no longer have the GROUP friendship status for this GROUP. If they are site friends with some of the group members, they remain SITE friends.

I hope this makes sense. Thank you

Hello,

I am aware of this setting. What I’m looking for is not Group Messages where all members can send a group message. What I’m looking for is a GROUP FRIENDSHIP/Connection. I would like people to be able to send messasges to one another individually, not as a group message.

For example: There are 50 people in the group. No one has created a “friendship” between each other. The Group Admin doesn’t want to flood group member inboxes with messages when one person wants to message only one or two members of the group.

So, Member #1 wants to send a message to the Group Admin and one other member of the group (not the entire group). However, they have not friended each other. Right now they must be friends on the entire site. This can be a privacy issue when viewing “friend posts”. A person would need to go into the group to see the posts or receive an email notification from the group for that individual.

I hope that this makes sense. Basically,
* Group Members are “friends” with content and messages within the group.
* Group Members may or maynot be friends outside the group.
* Group Members would still receive newsfeed notification emails.
* Group Members can use moderation tools to block individuals within the group if necessary.
* SPAM safeguard: Members of the group can OPT OUT of receiving group message notifications.

I hope that my explanation clarifies the need. I usually advise Group Admins to make Group Messages available to Group Admins only. If you’ve ever been on a group text on your phone before, you know how annoying it can be to receive responses when a couple of people in the text group start replying to one another over and over again and conversation isn’t relevant to anyone else in the group.

I’m pretty sure that this would be difficult to implement. That’s why I am hoping that you know of a plugin that does this.

Thanks

Hello Brajesh,

Yes, I am using BuddyBoss.