OMG I'm ready to SCREAM!Dingbats and Facebook don't mix.

[lildreamer316]

I'm helping an old friend out by setting up his myspace and facebook for his small neighborhood bar. Long story, but I almost bought the bar back a few years ago (when I had money, ha ha). He doesn't really know much about computers and the internet (he thought the best way to advertise right now was mass email; and couldn't figure out why he had so many bounces!). So I got both of the pages up and running. If you don't know, a business Facebook page can have fans, but cannot ask ppl to be friends like a personal one. If you try to make a personal Facebook for a business and use it that way, Facebook will shut you down with a quickness. So of course I did it the right way and set up a Page for the club. And we had over 150 fans already, so I was happy about that.

Well, last night the friend's wife asked him to ask me for the passcodes so they could get on the pages. Well of course; they're the owners..I texted them right over.

I go to get on the Facebook to re-promote the St. Patty's Day Party (that I used Photoshop the first time to design a flyer for, yay me!) and what happens?

I find out the page had been DE-activated; then RE-activated as a PERSONAL page. I can't access the club page at all; and all these friend requests have been sent out from this personal page.

Of course, finding help on Facebook is IMPOSSIBLE. I finally reported it as a compromised account; then when they let me back on it was still a personal page. Now I believe I have to wait 24 hours to see if they restore the original business page? Not sure..nothing is clear and there is barely a way to directly email support. It's so frustrating I really want to scream.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

SO it may be possible that ALL the people that had JUST become 'fans' of the NEW club page may now have to be courted to become fans of a SECOND club page that I will have to create tomorrow. This is just utter bullshit and not good business - I don't care what the business is.

:banghead: :banghead:

[Inchworm]

1. You guys are guinea pigs

When they figure out how someone can get rich just chillin and sayin' I'm Mr. Internet from real people doing the work... it'll all go back to normal.

:P

[lildreamer316]

4. Hopefully soon.,

meanwhile the wall is getting dented pretty badly. Grrrr. W
Where's my wine??

[gmoney]

2. Dingbats are the raison d'etre of Facebook, no?

[lildreamer316]

3. Yeah, but

I need some of these dingbats to be good customers of the bar, LOL. :)

[lildreamer316]

5. Kick

[lildreamer316]

6. last kick for any ideas