DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! AllFacebook is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

Jump to original thread »
Author

Users Get Banned for Creating Branded Fan Pages

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

This was bound to happen eventually. When Facebook launched fan pages, a lot of users jumped at the opportunity to create fan pages for large brands. Whether television shows or clothing brands, it was technically against the terms of service and now users are having their pages taken down and ... Continue reading »

3 comments

  • Now, a similar thing happened with me.
    I created an Opera Mini fanpage long back, I used to send regular updates. Even, I tried to contact someone from Opera Mini to transfer the admin privilege. But, in vein...
    Today morning, when I logged onto my Facebook account, I foung it being deleted...
    http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/13/facebook-cont...
    The name Fanpage creates a confusion, that pages by fan or not...
  • This particular Facebook feature is an utter mess. What about all the pages set up for artists/entities/etc that have died/ceased to exist. There may be nobody to transfer them to. The official answer is not to create them, which makes the whole "pages" concept very incomplete.

    Facebook should either allow anyone to create a fan page unless/until an official one exists or axe the whole concept until they have thought it through properly.
  • Nick, what are the legal implications of creating a branded page that isn't yours?

    Something like coolspotters.com has "fan pages" and companies don't seem to want to claim ownership of them.

    Shoot me an email at mwilson1 AT alum DOT bryant DOT edu and let me know what you think.

    Matt

Add New Comment

Returning? Login