facebook fan pages changed

Ah, I see your point..Maybe a few days before doing this they should have alerted everyone to the change, MySpace does this, don't know why FaceBook would not..

besides myspace, mylot also does this by alerting everyone.

yeah, they just changed it. so it is really weird over there. for example if you created a fan page, then you go all the way promoting your fan page asking people to become a fan of it, then your friends will be asking you, how to become a fan? i just see a like button? it is so embarrassing!

that's one of the possibilities too. but i think becoming a fan to a page means more than just liking a page. so they should have kept the become a fan button while adding the like button.

that's true, mjcookie. but since they have changed the become a fan button, why not they change the whole thing to be a facebook like page instead.

I think becoming a fan of something or someone is different and way more intense than just liking it.

yes, i think mostly the reason is caused by fan pages abuse. i saw that there are so many fan pages which are really nonsense and annoying. and because of that, the real/official musician fan pages have to suffer now.

i agree with you on this totally, mjcookie. it really messes up our liking someone's status or activity with this new liking a page thing. now, when i become a fan of a cocacola fan page, it's no longer showing on my activity as victorywp became a fan of coca-cola but it shows as victorywp likes coca-cola. i don't think my friends would understand that i have became a fan of coca-cola or any new page from now on. maybe they would think that i like a new friend called coca-cola, or have changed my interest to liking coca-cola, etc. it just does not distinguishes it from our other activities anymore, as you said.

Yes that's exactly what I am trying to say. I wonder what brought them to change it.

that's true about following youtube, Fertogo. but what i feel is that if it is called a facebook fan page, it should have fans in it. otherwise it should just be called facebook like page. so i prefer having the become a fan button and showing how many fans a facebook fan page has.

I agree with muscles4me, and the rating system does not have to be too complicated but a like or dislike button is just too simple. I think my one should implement a three-star rating. Once I mean it's useless, two stars mean it's okay, and three stars being it's amazing. Some like this would be a lot better than a simple like or dislike button, maybe you want to rate the page but you don't necessarily want to give it the best rating, and when there's only one good rating and one bad one you really don't have a choice.

if youtube and facebook have changed to like/dislike system, why should mylot go for scale rating from this existing positive/negative system? anyway, i think it is a good idea and you should open a discussion in all mylot categories and i am sure goaskalice will reply you with regards of that idea.

that's true, JoyfulOne. i think that's working perfectly fine for me too and does not have the need to be tweaked. maybe there are people who abuse the use of a fan page to gain fans. so facebook decided not to show the number of fans and instead just show how many people likes that page.

you seem to be so mad about the changes. personally i dislike that changes too. i own a facebook fan page and previously i can say that i have 1,000 fans on my page, but now i can only say i have 1,000 people like my page. the excitement is so different.

yes that's true, soleya. nowadays there are so many weird facebook fan pages like i will name my son megatron if i got 1,000,000 fans, my girlfriend will marry me if i get 1,000,000 fans, etc. of course i don't want to be called a fan of these types of pages (maybe just like these pages but not a fan). so i think this is the reason they changed it. but still, i think they should not change all the fan pages to become like pages. i mean especially for those official musician fan pages, they should have maintained them with fans.

fan page is different from personal page. personal page can only add friends up to a maximum of 5,000 friends. but fan page can have unlimited fans. but you still need a personal page in order to create a fan page. 2-3 people? you don't know the exact number of friends you have in your facebook? and you don't even bother to check on it? maybe you just use that facebook account to add certain friends like ckyera? just joking, don't angry like this ---

yes, that is new. so from now onwards, we can never become fans for certain pages and we just can merely like that page. they should also change the name saying fan page to like page.

i think it will only matters a lot if you are a fan page owner, especially if you have spent a lot of time and money to promote it. there is a very big difference of promoting something like become a fan of *fan page name* compared to come and like *fan page name*. don't you think so? who would like to promote something like the latter one?

i have a friendster fan profile before i created facebook fan page and i am still using both now. but i focus more on my facebook fan page because it seems to be more happening in facebook rather than friendster. now since facebook changed their fan pages to become like pages, i don't know what's the use of it already.

actually it's not a major changes on facebook and in fact it only applied to facebook fan pages (not facebook personal pages). so basically if you don't own a fan page (or have never became a fan of any pages), you won't care much of it (or don't even notice the changes).

hi hofferp. i think you mean the other like button, which is used to like your friends' status. but what i mean is on the fan page itself, mostly used by musician/bands or other business to promote their things. for example, this coca-cola fan page in facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cocacola

but there is no improvement by changing become a fan to like button and also the statistics of showing how many fans you have to how many people likes your page. usually when my friend became a fan of a page, it will show up on my news feed as *friend* became a fan of cocacola. so i would become a fan too if i am interested with that fan page. but now, it will show up on my news feed as *friend* likes cocacola. i would just thought that my friend changed his interest and i will never thought that it is a fan page actually.