Have you already seen a weird page or group on Facebook? Since everyone is allowed to create a group on social media, there might be cases wherein some of the groups were created for unusual purposes.
One example is this trending Facebook group, made for ants. Of course, ants can't use the Internet, but people can.
There are human ants on Facebook; Here's where to find them
Since the group is strictly applying an ant-like life for all its users, Childs and other moderators of the group limit the posts for these ant-related contents only.
No Coronavirus, political, or any hateful comments or posts will be tolerated on the platform to stabilize the real purpose of the group.
"We have filtered out all the COVID-19 posts, so it's like an escape," said Childs, a college student living in Fargo, North Dakota, with his family during the pandemic.
Why this group receives a huge number of followers?
It is no longer a new thing for Facebook to cater to weird or unusual groups on the social media network. Since everyone is on lockdown, people have more time to spend online than to go outside-- making this a common hobby for anyone.
However, Andreas Lieberoth, an assistant professor of media psychology at Aarhus University in Denmark, said that "the ant group sounds like a psychologically safe space to meander with nothing scary and nothing political and nothing coronavirus-related," he said. "I don't know if ants get COVID, but in this colony, they don't."
