Facebook page or group?
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:44 am
On Monday, the news was published: Sandro Rosell reaches a ceiling on Facebook with more than 5,000 fans . Although the headline could be confusing (the fans were not fans at all, but personal contacts), it opened the debate: about his candidacy, his presence on social networks and also about the uses and limitations of Facebook. Specifically about the use and limitations of pages and groups, two Facebook tools with specific uses and characteristics. Does Facebook have limits?
Flickr. Laughing Squid Gallery 2007
Flickr and Creative Commons. Laughing Squid Gallery 2007
Yes, Facebook has a limitation related to the members of a facebook data group that can receive the same message from a personal profile . This limitation is 5000 people. That is, if a group has more than 5000 members and the administrator wants to send them all the same message, Facebook does not allow it. Does the same happen for friend pages? No, there are differences between a group and the latter, and this post is about them. Let's see:
Cluster
What it is: a space considered a natural extension of the personal activity that takes place in one's own profile.
Visibility: Can be accessible or visible only to certain people, or to all of Facebook, and can also be closed (needs administrator approval) or secret (access by invitation only). Public groups can be found using Facebook Search .
Features: Groups have administrators who manage the group, approve requests from people who want to join, or invite others to join. Administrators can also designate "officers" to whom they grant certain management permissions over the group.
Fan page or Fan Page
What it is: connection between people and brands, companies, artists or celebrities, visible in the personal profile of the user who is a fan of that Facebook page .
Visibility : When you become a fan of a brand, band, movie or person, that information is posted on your wall and could be seen by your friends, while you can see theirs. Page content is indexed by external search engines (like Google ), but not for groups. Pages can be viewed by non-registered users, if the page's security settings allow it.
Flickr. Laughing Squid Gallery 2007
Flickr and Creative Commons. Laughing Squid Gallery 2007
Yes, Facebook has a limitation related to the members of a facebook data group that can receive the same message from a personal profile . This limitation is 5000 people. That is, if a group has more than 5000 members and the administrator wants to send them all the same message, Facebook does not allow it. Does the same happen for friend pages? No, there are differences between a group and the latter, and this post is about them. Let's see:
Cluster
What it is: a space considered a natural extension of the personal activity that takes place in one's own profile.
Visibility: Can be accessible or visible only to certain people, or to all of Facebook, and can also be closed (needs administrator approval) or secret (access by invitation only). Public groups can be found using Facebook Search .
Features: Groups have administrators who manage the group, approve requests from people who want to join, or invite others to join. Administrators can also designate "officers" to whom they grant certain management permissions over the group.
Fan page or Fan Page
What it is: connection between people and brands, companies, artists or celebrities, visible in the personal profile of the user who is a fan of that Facebook page .
Visibility : When you become a fan of a brand, band, movie or person, that information is posted on your wall and could be seen by your friends, while you can see theirs. Page content is indexed by external search engines (like Google ), but not for groups. Pages can be viewed by non-registered users, if the page's security settings allow it.