My life through the fan page lens

Life through the fan/business page lens

I’ve been teaching classes in my house for the past couple months on Facebook and Facebook fan pages. Here I’ll share with you some of what I’ve learned and some of the pages I’m administering and why. Since many of us are using Facebook we might as well figure out ways to reduce the clutter, get to what we want to see, and have fun doing it. First I’ll start off with some information that I hope is useful to everyone who has a personal profile — this is information I go over in my FB fundamentals class — the next of these is Thursday, May 5th, at my place @ 11am. Please contact me to RSVP. OK, here we go!

PS — My 50th Birthday party plan update here.

Your personal profile on Facebook

If you click on the Account button on the far right of your page, you’ll see the word “Account Settings”. Click on that and here are my recommendations.

1. On the “ notifications” tab (3rd from the left). All of the checkboxes on this screen indicate that you will receive a separate email each time one of these actions happens. The only box I have checked is the one for “ weekly page updates for admins” in the pages section. Facebook sets a lot of these boxes to “checked” as the default. All of this emailing is a lot for anyone to deal with and I recommend unchecking all of these boxes. Note: Facebook sometimes changes/adds boxes and so r eturning to this area every so often and unchecking boxes is necessary and recommended.