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How does the new privacy facebook settings affect fan pages ?

by smaver
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Hi warriors,

I am terrible confused about the privacy changes that facebook is doing.

In special I would like to know how these changes affect the post that you publish on a fan page. With these changes, all the people that "liked" my page are not going to see my publications on it´s timeline ?

Hope I have explain myself. If anybody could please help me to understand how these facebook changes affect a fan page I would be really apreciate it.

Thanks all for your help.
#affect #facebook #fan #pages #privacy #settings
  • Profile picture of the author ikhwanudin
    set your fan pages for public and never set it to private or friend only. Because, in fan pages we need openess
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    • Profile picture of the author Rashell
      Let me see if I can help clarify.

      First, there's a difference between a timeline & a newsfeed.

      The timeline is the page that fB gives you to post content to. Your fan page is a timeline for your business. The profile page with your name & cover photo on it is the timeline for you.

      The newsfeed, on the other hand, acts as a collection of posts submitted by each friend and page that you follow. It's the latest news from everyone you're connected with. Most posts will appear on the timeline of the person who published it and in the newsfeed of their "friends" and "fans"

      So here's the breakdown.

      You publish a post from your faceBook fan page. It appears in your fan's newsfeed (collection of posts from friends and pages they follow) but not their timeline (personal profile page).

      However, if you happen to @mention or @tag them specifically a published post would show in their timeline (their personal profile page). They could delete that post from appearing in their timeline (personal profile page). But it won't remove it from appearing in their newsfeed, the newsfeed of friends or the newsfeed of others who've "liked" your page.

      SO, an individual can control what their personal profile page (timeline) displays. But they can't control any other part of facebook. In order to completely remove posts which @mention or @tags them, they'd have to ask the page owner or author of the post to remove it.

      And it's pretty much always been that way.

      So what changed?

      Before you could "hide" your profile (timeline) from appearing in the fB search results. According to fB this gave fB users a false sense of privacy. Users assumed, since their profile wasn't available in search, their interaction, @mentions, @tags, etc on fB were somewhat private. But this isn't the case. So rather than make their site more "private" fB changed their policy to remove expectations of privacy.

      The new privacy settings won't affect fan pages because they were never private.

      HTH,

      Rashell
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  • Profile picture of the author johnrone
    The change in privacy settings does not affect a fan page.
    The fan page is used for public and for the promotion of a page.
    Making it private will delimit the fan page.
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