Wednesday, March 21, 2012

PYHO: Facebook Fan Page

Holy Batman! I am so over whelmed right now, my head is swimming and I'm not sure if I did everything right. It's 11:30pm and after a mad dash at 9:30pm to get into the chat room for Content Brew I tried my best to keep up. The page was lagging quite a bit and like a four year old high on smarties candies subject hopping gal like I am, I ran down another rabbit trail checking into creating a Facebook fan page.

Apparently some time ago I created one and never maintained it. Unfortunately the damn thing has to be linked to your personal FB page even if you try not to. I created a new account with my blog email address and the stupid thing somehow figured out that I was the other email address and linked the two together. I even logged out of my regular page. VERY annoying to say the least.

I had already deactivated the first page I created. Which takes 14 days, mind you. Stupid if you ask me. But who's asking me? I guess there's a delay, just in case you made a mistake. I'm not backing out. The page has 6 likes. Just 6! That is my fault. Really. But it's still sad. Very, very sad.

So I created a new one. Had a lot of difficulty with the photo for the page. I guess when my blog revamp happened over a year ago I was using a different computer. The image files are somewhere else now so I had to click and save from my blog to have a profile pic.  What a hassle that was! The files wanted to save as png's and basic Facebook doesn't accept those files, then I had to change the saving files. This is all more than I can handle on a six hour nights sleep. Especially after working an eight and half hour shift today. With both kids with me.

Torture? Close to it. If you ask me, I wouldn't mind joining Little E with some sobbing and crying that he blessed me with this afternoon and through the evening. Bedtime couldn't have come fast enough for him. But here I sit, sharing my frustrations with you on my blog Facebook Fan page.
 
So tomorrow I get more torture the pleasure of figuring out how to upload my RSS feed to my Facebook fan page. I know there are blogs out there that do make overs on your page. Are there blogs out there that create your FB page, get all the bugs worked out. Link everything the way it needs to be and set up the links on your blog? Because seriously, I'm not sure if I can handle the pressure. I really don't want to start all over again if I do it wrong.





11 comments:

Kristen said...

I am horrible at all of this techy stuff too! There is so much learn and then once you learn it...it has changed again. I'm sorry I don't have any advice other than that, I tweet my own blog post updates and I do the same for my FB page. That way I know it is getting done and I didn't screw anything up in the process. Good Luck!

shellthings said...

There are people who help with this. 

I woulkdn't recommend auto-posting your feed b/c fb punishes you for that- your feed might not show up when people are scrolling through fb. It's better to go ahead and put your own link on it with a little note about the post. :) 

Sorta Southern Single Mom said...

Oh lawd, girl, this has me giggling!  Not over your distress, but because this sounds like me in my own head!  Like Shell said, I ended up not linking my feed to my fb page. I just go in a link individually...when I remember!

Heather H said...

I feel your pain.  I finally broke down and created a Facebook fan page, and after weeks of pimping it, I still only got 8 likes.  I said eff it. Six months later, and it's still only at 12 likes.  Gah.  I am apparently the world's worst pimp.

Hope today went better for you!

Kristen said...

ok. so... I'm still not that awesome at the facebook fan page- but I'm plugging away at it. Good luck. If you go into your settings... you can turn it so it doesn't show "who" you are.  Good Luck

Missy | Literal Mom said...

I think getting techie things set up is incredibly stressful!  Hope it all worked out.  Want me to come like you there?  :)

CrazyKindofMom said...

 It is frustrating! I think I have three likes. :( I have fallen off the wagon and need to finish it.

CrazyKindofMom said...

Thanks for the advice! Who do you know that can help?

CrazyKindofMom said...

I have been so lost lately. I'm still recovering from Spring Break, and family crisis'. I have yet to finish the class I took for helping me with content. I'm falling behind with my whole life. :(

CrazyKindofMom said...

 Thanks! I am not taking it personally. I know it's partially my fault for not having numbers. It'll happen.

CrazyKindofMom said...

Thanks for the tip. I had no idea I could hide myself. :)