MMO Guilds ---> How does your guild use Facebook?

DR4296

Greetings All !

 

Say, the guild I'm in has a Facebook page, but it's just that... a personal page named with the guild's name instead of a human.

The other day, I discovered our guild's name was "opened" as a domain name, so I snagged that.  I had some web space available so I started developing a basic page.  Of course, I then started thinking, what else do I want on this site?  Keeping in mind that most guild websites are unused Ghost Towns and we already HAVE a fairly-active Facebook page, that got me to thinking:

What would I want in a Guild Website that we don't have on our Facebook page?

At first, I was just thinking... I'd like a Link Directory (where I can put really important info that I don't want to scroll down into Facebook history)... and maybe a FAQ page answering some questions about the guild.

I started googling on that, and I found that I could probably use some Facebook Apps for that!   And I also found that there are other apps for, say, linking a Youtube Video channel.   OK, so now I was getting excited about maybe just "beefing up" our Facebook page instead.

I tried to look at  one app, but it offered to link itself ONLY to a Facebook Group I own and manage... and a Facebook "Page" for a local business district that I was invited to be a sub-Admin for a few weeks back (not sure if that's a Facebook "Fan Page" but it's definitely in my sub-menu on Facebook for "Pages").

So then I started wondering:  Gee, should we convert our guild's Facebook (personal) page into a ... Group... or a Fan Page?  ( A quick Google confirmed you can't turn a "page" into a "group".)

At this point, I thought I'd better look around / ask around and see what other very-active guilds are doing / how they're set up on Facebook.

 

Can anybody provide some guidance / their experiences here?

 

Thanks!

-= Dave =-

 

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Novusod

I would never join a guild that uses Facebook. That would be a big red flag saying avoid this guild.

DR4296

Originally posted by Novusod
I would never join a guild that uses Facebook. That would be a big red flag saying avoid this guild.

And maybe you're not the sort of member we're looking for.   Most of our players are not hardcore.  We're casual.  Most members are between 20-50 years old.  And right now, Facebook is how we keep in touch.

 

bliss14

Perhaps rather than turning his thread into an anti-facebook rant, anyone with actual knowledge of what he is asking could simply answer his question.  Or her.