Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages

**Ali Hafeez** · 03-19-2010 11:54 AM

I’ve been listining series of strategy options for engaging young people through Facebook. So two platforms appears for communicate & that are Facebook pages and Facebook groups. I was a minor confused about which one to be selected over the other. Facebook pages and Facebook groups offer a way of promoting activities and of hosting a discussion between different Facebook users & almost same features. So after searching little articles related on these two platforms & i found these insight qualities.

Facebook group can be create for anything. They can be used as discussion forums, virtual petitions where membership indicates support for a cause, a space for sharing photos and videos or a way of subscribing to get messages from an organisation. As a creator you can control all the features of the group whether it is visible to all members of Facebook or closed and visible only to invited Facebook members.Where as Facebook Page can be create for any entity such as a club, youth council, youth project etc. Unlike groups Facebook Page can be visible on the internet to those without a Facebook account and have fans. You can send updates to fans but these will only be displayed on the side of a users homepage when they log-in rather than appearing in their inbox. Applications can be added to pages similar to the way you can add applications to your Facebook profile.

**mediadata** · 03-19-2010 04:41 PM

I like facebook for personal se but to generate traffic to sites I am not sure about this, what you say is very interesting though I think I would need to look into this a bit further. Thanks for the good post

**ameto** · 03-20-2010 11:53 AM

For me, facebook groups work well...

**rosesmark** · 04-02-2012 10:19 AM

There are various different in these but i am sharing you most common different.

Unlike groups, fan pages are visible to unregistered people and are thus indexed.

Unlike pages, groups allow to send out “bulk invite” (you can easily invite all your friends to join the group while with pages you will be forced to drop some invites manually). Groups are thus better for viral marketing, meaning that any group member can also send bulk invites to the friends of his