If you are using a Facebook profile for a business or brand, then you definitely should allow subscribers. If you want to keep your personal profile private, then you absolutely should not allow subscribers. If most of your status updates are public, then you aren’t gaining much by not allowing subscribers.
I think fan pages are still a better idea for any business or brand, but it is a great option for authors, artists and musicians who don’t want to use a fan page. This gets around the 5,000 friend limit and allows you to choose what is public and what is private all in one place.
To allow subscribers, go to your profile page and click on subscriptions (on the left, under your picture), then click on allow subscribers. You will get a pop-up window that lets you customize who can comment on your public posts (everyone, friends of friends or friends), lets you choose whose actions generate notifications (everyone, friends of friends or no one) and lets you limit friend requests to friends of friends with a check box.
If you change your mind and want to turn off the option to allow subscribers, click on subscribers (on left under subscriptions) then click on the edit settings button on the top right. A pop-up window will let you change subscribers from on to off.
Before you allow subscribers, you can see which of your friends have allowed subscribers on the subscriptions page. I’ve not found a way to see which of your friends are allowing subscribers after you’ve allowed subscribers yourself.
To subscribe to someone’s profile, click on the subscribe button – it’s on the top right of their profile page beside the add friend button. You are already subscribed to all your friends’ profiles. Click on the subscribed button to unsubscribe from a profile or to select or deselect types of updates such as games or photos.
I’m waiting for more authors to allow subscribers. Who are you going to subscribe to?
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I have both personal and business profile pages on Facebook. The personal page shows the Subscription option in the left margin, while the business one doesn’t. Can I do anything to change this? I’d rather allow people to subscribe on the business page.
By the way, I’m not talking about what used to be called the Fan Page here. I don’t have that set up yet . . .
Thanks!
Make sure you are signed in as your business profile and go to this link: http://www.facebook.com/about/subscribe
Then you should be able to click on the green button to allow subscribers.
Have you tried subscribing to another profile from your business profile? That might make it show in the list. You can always unsubscribe later. If that doesn’t work, I can look at it if you give me the link to the business profile.
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I have subscribed to timeline which will go into effect January 22, just a few days from now. I have quotes, stories, etc that I would like to include on pinterest. Is there any way I can transfer my favorite things to pinterest and also keep them on timeline? If not, may I possibly transfer quotes, etc from timeline to pinterest? Thanks!
You can’t pin images directly from facebook. You can download pictures from facebook to your computer, then upload the pictures from your computer to pinterest and add the link to the picture.
Heya! I know this is sort of off-topic but I had to ask.
Does managing a well-established website like yours require a massive amount work?
I’m brand new to operating a blog but I do write in my diary every day. I’d like to start a
blog so I will be able to share my personal experience and thoughts online.
Please let me know if you have any recommendations or tips for brand new aspiring bloggers.
Thankyou!
WordPress is pretty easy and it’s easy to get started. Just start writing and you can make changes and add widgets and stuff later. Content is the most important.
What do you do if you have intentions of setting up future facebook pages for a business and then for a book, but are mostly using your page as a public personality more than as a business. I posts on about half a dozen different non-related topics regularly. The topics are: Latino issues, technology, a liberal view on politics, women’s issues, race issues, marketing, and the publishing industry.These topics would really only interest a super niche market and no one from that market ever chooses to follow me. Instead, what happens is mostly men choose to follow me. These men who choose to follow me generally, exclusively, follow other similarly aged attractive women. This bothers me and creeps me out, but is it doing harm? Is it doing good? Should I let them follow me if they don’t contact me and have a lot of followers themselves? If so, what am I getting out of it? Should I not allow them to follow me because it bothers me? Of course that is the option I choose more often than not, but now I am starting to wonder if this is a wise choice. I initially had my “following feature” turned on and got a few followers. Then I felt that having followers bothered me and so I turned the “following feature” off. Any thoughts or suggestions. I know on twitter people aim to have a lot of followers. Is it the same for facebook? What are your thoughts?
I think having a Facebook fan page for your brand and keeping your profile page primarily for your personal use is the best option. I have a few Facebook pages, and I allow subscribers, but the only items I post to the public are things I’m promoting. Most things I only post to friends.