I mean, it’s almost as if I haven’t touched it in several years and didn’t know what the heck I was doing when I did maintain it. The feed is unreadable, I don’t know half the people on it, I’m not sure how to read anybody else’s stuff in a meaningful and sensible way, and apparently people can get upset if you post blog posts on your feed. I’m half-considering deleting the whole thing: not out of pique, but because I can’t figure out how to untangle it, so just junking the account then starting over seems, well, easier.
But I’m guessing that would be bad. Anybody got any suggestions?
Delete it.
I maintain a Facebook page, if only because I don’t want anyone impersonating me.
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And to hell what other people think. The only one you have to answer to, is God. If they don’t like that I post links to my blog, then they can unfriend me.
Nice to see your name. missed it
I know several people who maintain multiple pages – a personal “friends and family” page, and a professional “look at me, I’m a [realtor/lawyer/entrepreneur]!” page ..
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Of course, I also know many people who feel free to fill their feed with “likes” and “shares” of various memes and never say anything about their lives ..
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Then, there are the stealthies .. they’re “on Facebook”, mostly so they can chat with their friends, and so their moms can tag them in pictures…
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So .. the point is .. there’s lots of ways to Facebook, and it’s not that you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s that you haven’t decided what you’re going to do with Facebook.
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I suggest that you seek out some other professional-writer or professional-content-producer pages .. Howard Tayler is on Facebook, for just one example .. and see how they’re using it… then see if that suits your needs.
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Mew
I have an author page under my pen name for my writing, and then my personal page. I get grief sometimes for people not wanting to see my politics. Cry me a flipping river. That said, since the author page is meant to appeal to a broader audience, I try to keep the confrontational stuff off of it (Sad Puppies excepted). George Martin can get away with flipping off half his fans. I’ll never have he vanishing might of Tor behind me.
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The trick on author/organization pages is that what you can like is considerably more limited. And things that I would prefer to like on my author’s page (writing sites particularly), aren’t on that list, because FB decided that fictional persons don’t get to join groups. :/
I only maintain a Facebook page to see the pix on the Northwest Civil War Council’s page.
Facebook is an unreadable mess of animal videos and political screeds. It’s only tolerable when compared to MySpace. The way I’ve fixed mine is to hide all posts by 95% of my ‘friends’ so that just a few show up. That said, only check it when my wife asks “Didn’t you get that thing I sent you on Facebook?”
The only reason I got a Facebook and Twitter is because my kids were on them and I needed to monitor them. Twitter proven amusing for a while, but is becoming less so lately. I’m all about Instagram these days.
I set mine to block people from seeing what others post on my thread…and as jeffstag did, to block almost all political crap