If you’re reading this, I’m 99.99 percent sure you’re not Vin Diesel—who has a thriving Facebook page.
For 99 percent of actors—(I’m including celebrities)—you may be better served leveraging followers on your profile versus bifurcating your power between a Facebook profile and fan page.
Generally speaking, profiles are personal accounts, pages are business accounts, and followers are one-way relationships.
I’ll say it again a little differently:
Profiles are for people.
Pages are for businesses.
Followers are seekers of specific interests.
In the early days of Facebook (11 years ago), actors were taught to create fan pages so they could grow beyond a profile’s 5000-friend limit and “keep things professional.”
However, Twitter came along in 2006 and offered an unlimited one-way connection that was based on interests—something less invasive and drama-filled than a two-way Facebook friendship. Pretty immediately, Facebook added followers. (It now even has a follow/unfollow functionality on individual posts!)
Every person reading this article has different experiences, goals, and comfort zones—especially around their privacy and how they divide
Leave a Reply