One more thing to do . . . do I really need a fanpage?

After much prodding and resisting I finally sucumbed to making a fanpage. What convinced me in the end was reading Lisa Call’s blog “MakeBigArt.com“. In her article “Do I need a facebook fanpage?” she writes that it is technically illigal to have my art on an ordinary facebook profile.

And finally, here’s a little tidbit in the fine print of the facebook terms of service that might help you decide if you want to create a fan page.

All personal site features, such as friending and messaging, are also for personal use only and may not be used for professional promotion. If you add a user as a friend, for example, this person will be invited to be a friend of your profile and not your Page. Using personal site features for professional promotion, or creating unauthorized Pages, may result in your account being warned or disabled.

Technically, if you sell art from your regular user profile, or even promote it, you could be in violation of these facebook rules, which they seem to take rather serious.

It was, as some suggested, very easy to set up, with easy to follow practical tips from Lisa’s blog, though consider that facebook has changed some of the setups. And after much searching even found nice applications that work to forward posts from twitter, flickr, my blog and bitly, which saves a lot of time, my favorite one is RSS Graffiti.