Has anyone any experience they would like to share on using Facebook professionally? i.e. I want to create a Facebook Page to promote myself & avoid mixing with my personal account.
I should, I could but I can't be bothered! If you want people to like you so much feel free, it's your call! I don't care personally!
Surely though if invited to view someones page they should also provide a dislike button! That way I can show my dislike for anyone who asks me to like them without showing me anything that they've actually done other than build a fan page!
I'm not asking people to like me, I'm inviting people to look at my work and decide whether they want to like my page. To click 'dislike' isn't actually very contructive. If you don't like what you are seeing then write a comment on the page detailing why, or send the page owner a personal message. I CAN be bothered, because at the end of the day it's earned me money... shouldn't that be a good enough incentive!! For an artist to actually make money! Wahay and let's keep the bah humbugs at bay.
I'm surprised, but it's also very constructive to see such a strong 'for' & 'against' divide.
There is no one way to run your business; it is very subjective, and that's what fresh about it.
Terminology aside, I think i'm going to go ahead and create a 'page where you can keep up to date with what i'm doing'
With the philosophy that clicking 'Like' is just another term for 'subscribe to this newsletter.'
To be fair to Facebook (I'm sure Zuck's v concerned by this thread) I'm pretty sure they're no longer called Fan Pages, simply pages.
It's one of many useful tools available to actors. If you searched for me on Facebook before I made a page you would find me buried under many Dave Frost's from around the world - and since making it mine has come in quite useful.
Just received yet another message from Facebook! "XXXX has invited you to Like his page XXXX"! Not invited to "view" or "give your opinion on", but to "Like" and thereby sits the whole basis of my argument!
Once again, entirely a matter of vocabularly, for which the person trying to put themselves out there and gain support, is entirely not responsible. As mentioned before, things aren't always worded to make it look like you can view or give and opinion. But of course you know full well you can. So I think let's not be obtuse about these matters. I think your bah humbug says it all.
I have a 'page' and find it a useful tool to keep in touch with people and send out news updates on what I'm doing, to those who have chosen to receive them (I've never contacted someone to ask them to like my page). I think it's a really bad idea to use your personal FB for professional stuff, unless you keep your personal FB strictly professional.
If you've done nothing then it does make you look silly to set up a 'Fan' page (it does make me laugh sometimes when I see actors who have done very little putting stuff online with the clear intention of making themselves look like a celebrity) but you don't need to be famous to have fans or people interested in your career, and anyway it's just a word. FB pages uses "Fan," personal pages use "Friend" and Twitter uses "Follower" even though in practice they mean the same thing -- any and all of the three terms could be offensive to some people. It's just semantics.
Btw, I had a look and I think they have removed the word fan now, or at least I can't see the word fan anywhere. I agree that just calling them professional pages is highly preferable to fan pages.
Well, my page is still called "the fan page of Claire Dodin" and it's not possible to change the name if you have more than 200 likes.
Personally, I didn't chose to have one, someone else created it without asking me and I managed to convince that person to give me the control of it because it looked like his comments were mine.
It turns out to be useful as I prefer that the fans "like" this page rather than befriend my personal page.
The main reason for this is that they keep sending me messages and it's not manageable.
On this note, I've realized that the Timeline fan page allows people to send messages too, I've now disabled this option.
It's not easy to reply to messages without giving the impression that you would like to date them, and I don't want to be rude and lose the fans. So short conversations on the wall are cool, but private messages can be ambiguous.
On a personal page, if they befriend you, you have no control over messages and what they see/know about you. For example, if you click that you're going to an event, they'll know and may turn up etc...
So for women particularly, having a fan page is useful.
My website: www.markkempner.co.uk has a Facebook Like Button and a Twitter follow button. I can't in all honesty recall or remember why I put one on....but it seemed simple enough to do at the time! I think it helps google promote the page?
Either way....if folk wanna press my buttons they can.....even you Forbes if you want!!!
Best to all.....especially those who like me!!
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