Essentials of Group Psychology

I read the article 'Essentials of Group Psychology' on psyblog.

I didn't really like this article because it pretty much said groups take away your creativity and make you conform to their decisions, rather than forming your own. In a way I guess this could be true, sometime groups are formed because of the same beliefs, so rather than conforming decisions you already have the same ideas.

But then I think about the groups I am involved in in school (clubs, sports, etc.) and I tend to make my own decisions here. Most of the time, if it's an important issue, and I don't agree with one of my friends I tell them... Over all I thought the article had an interesting view point, but I disagreed with it.