Sunday, March 8, 2015

CLASS 4 ASSIGNMENT 6a: FACEBOOK PAGES AND GROUPS

            Facebook pages allow the user to create a unique place where you can represent businesses, brands, and organizations by posting relevant contents and attract followers. If someone likes the page, one would see the contents updated on the newsfeed. Individuals can also create pages and customize it according to one’s own taste. However, if you are representing a certain brand or organization, you have to have an official approval. 
            Pages can be run by a single account, but it has a slight difference from personal profile. While personal profile represents certain individual, one single person, page can represent various topics including any kinds of brands or organizations and popular contents. In other words, personal profiles are non-commercial accounts while pages need to attract likers and advertise what it is supposed to be.
            On the other hand, there is group feature in Facebook, which allows the users to have private space dedicated only to selected people. Anybody can create a group and invite closely connected people such as family, friends, and classmates to share contents together in a protected area. Nobody but invited people would be able to see the contents or even enter a group so that people in the group are comfortable in sharing their privacies. 


            Page and group features in Facebook have somewhat opposite goals. Pages want to gather people publically, while groups prevent it from accessing. I have personally used groups to communicate with closely connected people and like the pages that I am interested in. Groups also have privacy options to control so that it can be open to appropriate people. These two features are must have functions from Facebook to keep up with this world.

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