Facebook Fan Pages – Are You a Fan?

Posted by Gabe on July 30, 2009 under Kids are Heroes, Social Media, Twitter | 2 Comments to Read

Since my daughter MaryMargaret and I discovered social media last year, we have set one goal and one goal only, and that is to expose Kids Are Heroes to as many people as we can.  We were told to create a YouTube account (which we did) and a Facebook account (which we did).  We were also told to create a Twitter account. I thought to myself, “Not Twitter – I’ve tried it before and it is STUPID!”  Having remembered the Seinfeld episode where George does the opposite of what he would normally do and all of a sudden he succeeds at everything, I figured I could become George Costanza for a day.  After all, what’s the worst thing that could happen?

So besides telling all the ladies I am unemployed and that I live with my parents, I joined Twitter.  Just like in the Seinfeld episode it worked swimmingly.  But what about YouTube and Facebook?  MaryMargaret and I had lots of fun creating comical videos together that to this day still crack me up (The Case of the Generous Kids and the Kids Are Heroes Show are two examples) and I hesitantly posted on Facebook.  For some reason I don’t like to friend people on Facebook as quickly as I do Twitter because I tend to let my guard down a bit around family and I’m not sure if the rest of the world is ready for that.  And then I found out about the groups on Facebook.  That’s perfect I thought.  So I created a group. My nephew who has 5000 or so friends on FB put out a request for people to join.  People were joining left and right. Life was good.  Only one problem – I was the only one who was updating the page.  It’s as if they joined but never came back.  So for quite a while then I invested most if not all of my social media time in Twitter.

Then I found out about the fan pages on Facebook.  One of my Twitter colleagues suggested we do a fan page instead of a group – she told me it would be much more interactive.  So I did. Not knowing what I was doing, and not trusting it, I just put out one status and that was it.  To noone’s surprise I got the same result as before.   Then just a few days ago I put out a tweet asking for help with my fan page.  All of a sudden I got an onrush of people writing on the wall with suggestions as to how I should manage it.  It was then that I realized that the status updates from fan pages actually get distributed to all members’ walls (unless they choose to hide them).  That’s it! I thought – that’s how it can be interactive. 

So, it’s only a few days later and I am really excited about it.  I would love an explosion of new “fans” but as I remember when I started with Twitter, patience is indeed a virtue.  They will come.

I even added a post on the Discussion board asking for feedback but since no alert of those get posted on people’s walls I trust I will be waiting a long time.  I was hoping then that for those of you that are “fans” of ours, please let us know how we are doing.  Are we posting too much, not enough, or just the right amount?  We have started to add photos and I will continue with that but do not want to bombard people’s walls with stuff.  Most of our videos are in YouTube form, so we will add them sporadically to the wall. I do try not to mimic my tweets on the fan page.  A lot of the content is similar but what’s the point of reading the same thing twice? 

So, if you would kindly let us know what we can do to make the fan page better, we’d love to hear your feedback.  What else would you like to see? I do plan to add more pictures of other heroes and their activities.  Let us know what you think by dropping us a comment.  I also understand that fan pages are getting a bad rap these days.  Let us know what you think about that too.

Oops!! Almost forgot. If you would like to join our fan page, please do so here.  Thanks!!