Comments on: Facebook Pages are Improving

By: Chris O.

Chris O. — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:55:21 +0000

I've written off Facebook Pages as almost worthless prior to this, so it is a VERY welcome change. Facebook just isn't built around consciously deciding to go through several clicks to find if MAYBE something has been updated, it's built to see what's been updated right on the front page as soon as you log in. So now pages might actually get some attention, which is good. If there's anybody out there that does not like getting those notices, they can just defriend the page — no major loss, they obviously weren't doing anything with it to begin with.

By: Miklo

Miklo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:29:32 +0000

Wall posts are limited to about 160 chars and it is not possible to allow fans of a page to write notes?! How is it possible for fans of a page to add some type of longer messages to wall? Much longer wall posts were allowed before…

By: Miklo

Miklo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:29:00 +0000

By: Sheli

Sheli — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:06:14 +0000

I was playing around w/ our Library page today w/ my coworker and we were very frustrated! We wanted to have the library’s twitter feed to the status updates. The twitter app says you can add it to pages, but it kept adding my personal twitter from my personal FB page and not the libraries. And we couldn’t even find the twitter app in the boxes tab or anywhere on the page! So, I think that aspect is a total bust.

I do like that it will integrate the status into the fans news streams….if only it would integrate the apps better! I don’t mind monitoring lots of places, I just don’t want to be manually entering the same info on a gazillion sites. I’m hoping this will be resolved, then I’ll be totally on board….w/ zero trepidation.

By: Sheli

Sheli — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:06:00 +0000

By: Daniel Loxton

Daniel Loxton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:53:33 +0000

I see the value of the News Feed integration, but otherwise I'm really upset about the change — and baffled. The change has a serious downside: for many (perhaps most) Pages, Wall content is trivial, off-topic (plugs for peripherally related Groups), or (for less populous Pages) non-existent. Landing on that Wall is, in those cases, a waste of time for Fans — and a wasted opportunity for the Page to share any substantial content (all of which is now buried under tabs). Our outfit is a nonprofit educational organization, and so the Skeptic magazine Facebook Page's main function is likewise to provide information (or to refer people to the more substantial Skeptic.com for further research). That job is made harder when Fans must opt to click through tabs to find to information they used to land on. On balance, I'm very disappointed, and frustrated. (Poof! There goes a lot of work on that and our other Pages.)

By: Daniel Loxton

Daniel Loxton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:53:00 +0000

By: Ellen

Ellen — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:47:19 +0000

As a page editor, I like the status update thing as a way to reach our fans. Though I am with Deborah on wanting some of our applications on the main wall page. Right now I can’t figure out how to get our IM chat box back out from underneath being buried in a tab.

However, as a facebook user and fan of many other pages, I’m annoyed at non-people statuses that are now showing up in my newsfeed. Facebook had better give us a way to filter them if we don’t want to see them, like we can with other types of things which show up in our newsfeeds.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:47:00 +0000

By: Ed Jewell

Ed Jewell — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:16:10 +0000

I’m with you on the RSS feed thing, Deborah. We had a few running off our website, but they seem to have gone AWOL. Let us know if you rediscover your’s; I’ll keep on hunting.

Generally the new status ability seems like a v.positive move. Much more personal than a ‘fan update’.