Facebook Admin & Community Host Sample Posts
FB-Group Posts about your Community
Are you a Facebook Admin creating a parallel Private Community in the Buy Nothing App? Here are some posts you can use to introduce the new community to your members - with a special offer!
Canva Template
We’ve created a graphic you can customize and use to share your new private community with your Facebook group members.
Facebook Post Text Templates
We drafted 3 sample posts you can copy and paste into your Facebook groups to share your new Private Community.
Introductory Post About the Private Community (with promo code)
📢 Exciting News: Our Private Community is now on the Buy Nothing App!
Hi everyone!
I’m so excited to share that we now have a new way to connect and share with one another. I’ve officially set up a Private Community just for us within the Buy Nothing app!
Why are we doing this? The Buy Nothing Project team custom-built this app specifically for the gift economy. It’s not an "either-or" situation — you are more than welcome to stay right here in this Facebook group. And, you are welcome to be in both The app offers some amazing features that help us share more purposefully:
Personal Metrics: See your full history of Giving, Asking, and Gratitude tallies!
Beyond the Neighborhood: You can participate in our private community in the app while also seeing (and offering) "Gives" and “Asks” that are not in private communities but listed within your customized viewing radius.
Searching, Shipping, & the Global Gift Economy: Buy Nothing is the home for all freely-given gifts, filterable by your location, or your willingness to cover the shipping cost for the free-market-style gift inventory found on the “Explore” page of the app. Think: Freebay!
Purpose-Built: This is a space designed specifically for us, without the distractions of advertising as seen in traditional social media feeds.
Privacy First: The app is community-supported. Unlike other platforms, it doesn’t rely on advertising or selling your private data.
🎁 A Special Gift for You! The app is free for everyone to use, but there is a subscription tier that helps fund the developers and server costs. To celebrate our new space, the Buy Nothing team is gifting you a Free Trial for the month of March to test out the premium features (like saving up to 5 sharing locations in the app)!
Use Code: [INSERT CODE HERE]
How to join us:
Download the app at the App Store, Google Play, or visit buynothingproject.com.
Look for our private community: [INSERT PRIVATE COMMUNITY NAME].
Start sharing!
I’m looking forward to seeing you there and building our community on a platform built just for us. Let’s keep the abundance growing!
[Link to the specific community or app store]
Second Post About the Private Community (with promo code)
💬 Ask Us Anything: Our New Community on the Buy Nothing App
As we begin to settle into our new private community on the Buy Nothing app, we want to make sure everyone feels supported in this transition. We’ll be posting updates here periodically, but we also want to hear from you!
Have questions about the move? Let's chat here. If you’re curious about why we’ve started this private group or how the transition works, please post your questions in this thread. We’ll do our best to answer them! If we don’t have the answer handy, we’ll reach out to the Buy Nothing Project team and get back to you as soon as we can.
A Quick Note on Technical Support: Since we are learning right along with you, we won’t be answering specific "how-to" questions about the app's inner workings. The best way to learn is to jump in with no expectations and explore!
For technical help, the Buy Nothing team has built a robust Help Center and a Feedback Form right inside the app. You can also browse their FAQs here: http://help.buynothingproject.org/
✨ Ready to Try it Out?
If you haven't joined us yet, don't forget that the platform is free, but you can currently use a special promo code to test out the premium "Support" features for a full month! This includes:
Boosting: Bump your posts to the top of the feed.
Bookmarking: Save those must-watch gifts for later.
Travel Mode: Save up to 5 gifting locations for when you’re on the move.
Promo Code: [INSERT CODE HERE]
We are so excited to take this "abundance mindset" to a whole new level with you. See you in the [Insert Community Name & URL] group in the app!
Third Post About the Private Community (with promo code)
Why Buy Nothing has Built its Own Home 🏠
While we love the connections we’ve made here, much of social media today can feel isolating or divided. Buy Nothing is different. Our goal has always been to bring people together, and to do that sustainably, we’ve created a space built entirely on the values of the gift economy.
Here is the "Big Why" behind the Buy Nothing app:
A Custom Experience: On big social media platforms, we have to follow their rules and layouts, even when they don't help our community grow. With our own app, the Buy Nothing team can build features specifically for local gifting—like giving history, item category searches, and private community toggles.
Privacy First: Unlike major corporations, the Buy Nothing app never sells your private data to third parties. Your information stays yours.
Zero Ads: Experience a feed that is 100% focused on your neighbors and community—no sponsored posts, no distractions.
Immediate Connection: You can start sharing the moment you join. There are already 1.6 million people worldwide on the platform ready to give, ask, and show gratitude.
Real People, Real Mission: This isn't a faceless corporation. The Buy Nothing Project is a Certified B Corp, which means they are legally committed to social good. It is built from the ground up by the people behind this movement, for the people in this movement.
Ready to try a space built just for us? Join our private community in the app today. It’s free, it’s private, and it’s dedicated to the world we want to build together. And, if you want to try a free trial of their subscription features, here’s a code you can use when you join: [Insert Promo Code Here]
[Insert Link to Download/Join Here]
Further Posts to Entice Members to Join your PC
Choose a favorite post of yours in the app that you’d like to share in your Facebook group, tap on the share feature on the post, copy the post, and paste it into your Facebook group along with an invitation for members to click on the link and head on over to your community in the app.