Comments on: What is Facebook’s stance on third party Pages?

By: David

David — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:11:43 +0000

There is no standard it seems. I’ve had fan pages I created for deceased celebrities deleted rather quickly while others still remain. It also appears that fan pages I’ve joined, I am not longer a part of and find myself joining them again.

The whole idea of them patrolling fan pages seems odd when there are fun groups using celebrity names such as “Bobby McFerrin Raped My Grandmother – A Support Group” and “Chuck Norris Once Punch a Man in his Soul”.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:50:41 +0000

Does anyone have any insight as to how Facebook determines whether it was the brand owner who created the page? I am seeing a lot of college & university “pages” that don’t look too official … how fast will they be verified/deleted?

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:22:54 +0000

This is Ali from iLike.

Here’s the short story… not really much of a story, actually:

Within hours after creating the Pages on Facebook, we found a couple of bugs in the way we had auto-created them, including a number that were not supposed to have been created.

It was our mistake, so to err on the safe side, we voluntarily “unpublished” (but not deleted) all the pages. We’ve solved the issues and have been “republishing” them over the past few days.

Ali Partovi
CEO, iLike

By: Facebook's Inconsistent Pages Policy - The Unofficial Facebook Blog

Facebook's Inconsistent Pages Policy - The Unofficial Facebook Blog — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:15:29 +0000

[...] Facebook has blocked the majority of them because a number of them have disappeared as Justin Smith reported. Given that Facebook expects brand owners to create the pages, Facebook could technically block all [...]

By: Colin Donald

Colin Donald — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:42:20 +0000

I blogged about a similar issue for page names – who’s going to have ownership of a particular word that’s also a brand name, such as Blockbuster? See here for two Blockbuster pages:

http://if.futurescape.co.uk/2007/11/when-is-a-faceb.html

By: moe

moe — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:47:18 +0000

A long time ago Mark Zuckberg gave an interview on NPR about facebook users that was really interesting. Basically, he said that users get mad about change but soon embrace it. This happened when facebook opened up to the public and when they launched the newsfeed. Give it time, everyone will start becoming a “fan” to a “facebook page.”

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:02:18 +0000

Is anyone convinced that users are a ‘fan’ of Pages?

Most people I talked to didn’t care, or really hated the idea of brand profiles.

I’ve seen them as a user and made a few pages for big brands, but they didn’t do much for either side.

By: Neal

Neal — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:06:56 +0000

Justin – great posts. I had no idea about iLike pages disappearing. Wonder what FB fanboys think of this?

Also, I am starting to believe that FB is getting a little too desperate to make money right now. They need to really think about their users first just they way they used to back in the day.