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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 10:10:11 GMT -5
No it's not! Thanks for the apology, happyscooter. I don't have FB access at work anymore so I am trying to go by memory what everything is called and where it's located.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 10:27:51 GMT -5
The Community College course is a good idea. In the meantime, you might want to find a FaceBook-savvy 15-year old who can sort out your current situation.
As others have said, it's likely that most of what you're seeing is on your personal news feed- anytime anyone you've Friended posts something, no matter how inane ("please repost this picture of a rose if you have a daughter you love with all your heart") shows up on your news feed. It should not be visible to people who visit your business page. It won't even be visible to any of your other FaceBook friends unless they're also a friend of that person or you comment on it or repost it.
I've cut off the news feed of a couple of people who do nothing but repost recipes that are deadly- full of processed ingredients, fats, calories and chemicals. I just looked up the most recent posts of one of them. They included Taco Pie, sausages wrapped with bacon and cooked with butter and brown sugar, and a concoction of frozen cookie dough, a Reese's Cup and prepared brownie mix layered in muffin tins and baked. If I ever want to gain back that almost-20 lbs. I lost, I'll re-subscribe to his news feed.
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Post by Taxman10 on Nov 1, 2013 10:39:12 GMT -5
LOL - this thread cracks me up....I bet you're over 40 aren't you?? people over 40 get all kinds of confused with FB :-)
Why don't you friend me, and I'll post lots of "appropriate" things on your wall for you!!
You're welcome :-)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 10:40:02 GMT -5
You're lucky I like you, taxi!
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Post by Taxman10 on Nov 1, 2013 10:43:11 GMT -5
you're lucky that I find you to be incredibly sexy, smart and super-duper in every way!!!
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 1, 2013 10:49:57 GMT -5
Just ignore the personnel side. All you care about is the business page. It has its own news feed, friends list, etc. When you post on that one do it as the business, not as yourself.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 10:50:57 GMT -5
you're lucky that I find you to be incredibly sexy, smart and super-duper in every way!!! Good answer!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 12:04:55 GMT -5
You wouldn't happen to remember that recipe for sausages wrapped in bacon and cooked in butter and brown sugar would you?? Just in case you're serious- here you go. www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10200396599739440&set=a.3145948369510.2123876.1289048677&type=1&theater And now I'll get back to my salad.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 1, 2013 12:15:33 GMT -5
That's all you have on business pages. I should have been clearer. The point is, who the hell cares what happens on a personal page that she only has in order to administer the business page? Focus on the business page and ignore the personal one.
The way my business page is set up though, it has it's own name. Say, Dark's Toys. When I post on it I post as Dark's Toys, not as Dark Honor. If you follow the page you can't tell who owns it. My name isn't anywhere on it. So, a customer can't look at the page, see who I am, then check out my personal page or google me. All they see is Dark's Toys. The posts are made by Dark's Toys. The comments, if I reply to them, are from Dark's Toys. I could be an axe murderer, with a personal FB page full of nude selfies, and there's no way to know from the business page.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 12:17:42 GMT -5
*could be*?
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 1, 2013 12:22:54 GMT -5
Hey, I blur out my package on my selfies! Give me some credit.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 12:29:08 GMT -5
Dark you blur out way more than your package. We can barely make out your knees in some of them.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 1, 2013 12:30:59 GMT -5
When you're as big as I am you gotta use a lot of blur to hide everything. Don't want the tip peaking out to say hello.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Nov 1, 2013 12:35:56 GMT -5
LOL - this thread cracks me up....I bet you're over 40 aren't you?? people over 40 get all kinds of confused with FB :-) Why don't you friend me, and I'll post lots of "appropriate" things on your wall for you!! You're welcome :-) Grrrr....I do not get all kinds of confus...errr, I mean I know what you mean, those old ladies don't seem to get it
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 12:37:59 GMT -5
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Post by gooddecisions on Nov 1, 2013 12:44:47 GMT -5
It is my friends who are posting the stupid stuff. What I would like to write is 'instead of being on facebook ALL DAY LONG, go cut your grass, clean up your house and start exercising.' eeerrr........... Welcome to 2013 where people can do all that stuff while posting to facebook. How do you think so many people get away with being here all day?
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 1, 2013 12:47:29 GMT -5
Why, it's just going to grow back? That's what my wife and kids are for. I rode my bike to work in order to sit online all day, thank you very much!
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Post by swamp on Nov 1, 2013 12:52:58 GMT -5
My most recent FB postings:
I hope this is the last time I have to cut my grass before winter. I'm dusting. I hate it. I can't hear my music over my wheezing when I'm running.
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Post by happyscooter on Nov 2, 2013 6:50:24 GMT -5
yesp, i'm over 53.
dark, you might sell a lot more if you didn't blur out some things.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2013 8:46:06 GMT -5
I told someone one day not to send me these chain emails. As soon as someone replies, it goes to everyone and my email address would get sent to everybody. So if I didn't want political, religious, etc... TOO BAD. The person told me that the originator of the religious email would NEVER send me something questionable. I said 'but you DO realize that if you CC someone, it goes to EVERYBODY'. They didn't understand the concept. You need a secondary email account to give out to your 'friends' that send garbage emails. Get a hotmail account for them. Once you've deemed them email trustworthy, then you can give them the real email that you use for important stuff. I'm not sure what kind of friends they are if they keep sending you carp after you specifically ask them not to.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 2, 2013 11:00:47 GMT -5
yesp, i'm over 53. dark, you might sell a lot more if you didn't blur out some things. I don't sell anything on my personal page, and it's not associated with the business page except that I use it to moderate.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 2, 2013 12:50:22 GMT -5
It is my friends who are posting the stupid stuff. What did you think was happening on Facebook? It isn't like it was created as a forum for scientific discovery, and world changing literature. Sorry - you can't rewrite the entire purpose of a huge thing like Facebook because it doesn't suit you.
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Post by happyscooter on Nov 3, 2013 9:20:20 GMT -5
Wow thyme, I just asked for help, I didn't want the world to conform to me. Since I had never been on Facebook, I didn't know what it was. Other than hearing people talk about being on there when they should be doing other stuff.
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Post by teen persuasion on Nov 3, 2013 14:16:18 GMT -5
You should treat your business an entity separate from you. That means your business should have its own FB page (a business one), its own email address, own Pinterest account, own whatever else.
I manage the FB, Pinterest, and website accounts for the library where I work. The FB and Pinterest accounts are both business accounts, and look/act differently from my personal accounts. More than one person can post/pin to them, as well, if I give them access. The person who created the website for us and initially set up the FB page also posts things for us as PR. All of it appears as if ***Library is posting it, regardless of who does it. The PR person also has a local news blog, and will repost some of our posts (say, about community programs) there for us, to get info out to a greater audience.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 3, 2013 14:24:14 GMT -5
I think the OP's problem is that she's a writer so her book has her name on it. She doesn't have the firewall of a business entity or other legal name between her personally and her product.
If it's not too late she could consider publishing under a pen name to create that buffer.
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Post by teen persuasion on Nov 3, 2013 14:33:55 GMT -5
Good point, Dark. If I were a writer, I'd personally use a pen name. Partially for the anonymity, but more so that I can pick a good name. I've noticed that in certain genres (mystery), there are lots more A B C lastname authors and very few X Y Z authors. Since fiction is shelved by author lastname, it is worthwhile to be at the beginning of the ranking. You can barely get to the end of the alphabet shelves for our library's adult fiction, w a y up in the corner far from the circ desk. I'd also want something memorable. I love the name Lemony Snicket.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 3, 2013 14:44:09 GMT -5
Even a pen name isn't that much of a buffer unfortunately. Wikipedia has had the real name of every author I've ever looked up. I don't know if the publishers release it or what, but unless you publish anonymously, I don't think there's any way to keep your real name off your product. If you're going to write a book you have to accept the publicity that comes with it.
As to Facebook in general. I still say ignore the personal page for now. Don't read it, don't look at it, don't worry about what's being said on it. Login to the business page, pull up that wall and go through the comments on it. I think you right click on any comment to delete it. You should have a notification bar at the top of the screen that says you're posting as <insert business page name> with the option to switch to posting as <insert personal name>. Don't ever do it. Always post and like on your business page as the business. There's a FB tutorial to show you the features of a business page. Go through that whole thing. Do it before you do anything else. If you can't find it in FB google FB business page tutorial. Go through the top couple responses.
Another sanity check if you're confused about what's going on with your business page is to log out of Facebook completely and google it. If you view your page without being logged in you'll see what everyone else would see if they look you up. It's a good idea to do this on your personal page periodically too. It's a way to make sure you have your privacy settings configured right if you want your news feed and pictures to be hidden from the public.
Facebook is like any other tool. You have to put in the time to learn to use it properly before it'll do anything for you.
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