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Sep 07, 2015 04:29PM
Need help with Facebook - what's the diff between a Facebook account and a Page? People have Facebook accounts, but they also have "pages" - why? What's the difference? As an author, what should I have on Facebook?
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A Facebook account is your person page and a Page is where you can create an author page to separate your personal life with your business. Pages allow people to like your page rather than friend you. Its a good way to promote on FB when you want to separate your personally life with your writing life pretty much.
A Facebook account is your private account to link up with friends and family.The Page is a business/club/group page from which you can post information about your book to attract potential readers, discuss the book and so on. You can advertise - and FB impose themselves by pushing you to pay for advertising...
In this way you can separate your personal life so that readers of the Page cannot see your personal posts.
I'd been wondering the same thing, so thanks for this information.
Hi April. Facebook author pages are basically pages that people can like and follow, but they are limited to one way interactions for the most part. I don't have a personal facebook account, so here's a list of what I can and can't do:Can:
-Make and schedule posts
-Reply to and like comments
-Reply to messages
-Turn off private messaging
-Like other pages as my page
-View basic analytical info regarding page views and interactions
Can't:
-Have friends
-follow people who choose the subscribe option over a page
-Send a private message ti anyone who has not sent me one first
-Be invited to or invite others to events.(but I can participate in them or schedule them)
Hope that helps, but keep in mind that the Page Manager app is even more limiting in that it has been 'broken' for nearly a year (no notifications on some devices and almost zero functionality on certain operating systems)
April, it's a great way for fans to find and follow you as an author, without becoming friends with them so they see all your personal stuff.
I guess that's why I'm confused. I created a Facebook account specifically for my author name (nothing personal there, just book stuff). So an "author page" seemed redundant. Should I just keep one of those and get rid of one? If so, which one?
Technically the Facebook account with your pseudonym violates their terms and can be shut down.
Charles wrote: "Technically the Facebook account with your pseudonym violates their terms and can be shut down."Okay, so I should close the Facebook account that I opened using my pseudonym and keep the "author page" that I set up. That sounds good to me. I didn't like having two pages to keep up with. Thanks, Charles.
Charles wrote: "Technically the Facebook account with your pseudonym violates their terms and can be shut down."Still???
Okay, please pardon me for being obtuse tonight, but how do I close the Facebook account (and keep the author page)? Can I do that? I'm looking on the Facebook account for something that says "cancel" or something like that.
I think it's hidden somewhere in your security settings if I recall. That shouldn't affect your page at all.
You can suspend it. Go to acct settings, then security and it'll give you a deactivate option
That won't work. I tried to delete the Facebook account, and they said my author "page" would also be deleted. :( I'll have to figure this out when my brain starts working again. I just formatted 350+ pages of my novel for print, and my brain has gone to mush.
Thanks, everyone, for your kind and generous help!!
Christina wrote: "Charles wrote: "Technically the Facebook account with your pseudonym violates their terms and can be shut down."Still???"
You just have to jump through hoops to get it back I think, and it doesn't always work.
Bleurgh! I set mine up with a different email, so that might be different. Can you just set it to entirely private?
April, there is a way to merge similar pages in Facebook. I am also a newbie to all this so I'm not sure how it works, but if you created an Author page off your actual FB profile (not your pseudonym) and then merge the old Author page to it, I think it will tranfer all the likes, etc. Then you could delete the pseudonym profile page. Totally guessing but it seems logical.
Thanks for starting this string. You prompted me to investigate Facebook pages and set up a page for my mystery series. Now I need to look into the link to Amazon from facebook.
A few things that I find annoying about "Pages" versus personal profile is:1. Likes from pages to other pages don't "count," i.e., while a page you liked with show up on your page in the "Liked by this page" box and possibly in your page's newsfeed, the actual like count of the page you liked doesn't increase. Apparently business pages should not be able to like other business pages. You can only like another "page" as your personal profile.
2. A page cannot share with a group/community. You have to share as your personal profile.
3. Only 16% of your posts are delivered to your audience, in order to increase your audience you have to pay to boost every posts. (However, at least Pages allow you to boost your post.) I think personal profile post reach is based on interaction. If you have recently interacted with your friend, he/she is likely to see your posts for a while.
This is what I've noticed from my experience. Facebook is a maze of trial and error.
Ellison wrote: "A few things that I find annoying about "Pages" versus personal profile is:1. Likes from pages to other pages don't "count," i.e., while a page you liked with show up on your page in the "Liked b..."
I have both a "personal profile" and a "page" and figure that the more places in which I have a presence, the better chance that I (more importantly, my work) will be found. At some point, I shall work up to a website.
Ellisons #3 point is true. I have mentioned this in several groups and even wrote a post about Facebook algorithms. That's how they get you they try to make you pay to increase followers.
