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Bloggers and Facebook Fan Pages
November 24th, 2010 | 
Author: By Mama M, Staff Writer, My Little Life (@5crookedhalos)
I like to consider myself a fairly intelligent person: I schlepped my way through college. I can solve simple math equations. I might even, be able to write out the chemical makeup of water.
But, there’s something I just can’t wrap my mind around. Maybe you can help me.
I keep running across blogs that have Facebook Fan pages and I really don’t understand it. We have Google Friend connect, Google reader, Feedburner; how many more times, and in how many different ways, do we need to hear that people like us?
And, besides that, what exactly is the point of a Fan page; this even confuses me in regards to businesses. I’m sort of understanding that businesses offer “Facebook Specials” for their “friends”, but Bloggers?
I’m confuzzled: What does a Fan page do for a girl (or guy)?
So do I need to get with the times and just create a dang Facebook Fan page for my blog, or are there other people out there who wonder the same thing?
Please share your knowledge; I would like to let my mind rest on this matter.
For Bloggers with Facebook fan pages: Please come by the Our Mommyhood forum to discuss the following and share your knowledge:
Do you have a Fan Page?
What are your thoughts on Blogs and Businesses that do?
If you have a fan page, do you feel it offers you or your readers something?
Do you interact with your fans or readers on Facebook?
Do you separate your personal Facebook page from your Blog’s Facebook page? Why?
Knowledge is power and we want to hear your thoughts!
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I don’t get it either…seems like a bit of overkill to me! I do not have a fan page. I communicate with some of my readers via FB, but only those that have followed my blog for a while. I will not be putting up a fan page b/c I don’t think it’s necessary…then again, I treat my blog like a therapist rather than a business. Maybe that’s a difference.
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I am with you on this one. I have an online business and I’m reluctant to add a FB fanpage to the home page of the site for all the reasons you mention. I can’t understand who would want to talk on FB about the stuff I sell. Plus, if your content is on your blog or website, aren’t you just driving traffic to FB? I’ll be interested to hear what others have to say on this.
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Well, it’s pretty simple actually. I don’t want to inundate my real life friends with blog updates so I created a separate page so only those that elect to get updates (by “liking” the page) get them. That way my father and law doesn’t get a notice when I blog about my boobs, but folks can still use facebook to get blog posts (which many prefer because they aren’t avid blog readers and don’t have readers set up).
It has nothing to do with narcissism. It’s just a way to use facebook to put posts out there that doesn’t force them upon long ago colleagues and my husband’s underage cousins.
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I have a fan page but I don’t use it…I also don’t understand the point of having one. Interested to hear what others have to say!
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I don’t get it either, and frankly its just too much work to keep up on it, IMHO…lol
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