In one of my previous post i wrote an article about why facebook pages are better than groups sorting out the important features of fan pages which lacks in groups.In this post i am gonna share in which way groups are better than pages in facebook.

1.Groups has the potential to send bulk messages to all members but fan pages are only able to send update to their fans.Consider you are having 5000 members in your group and 50,000 fans in your fan page.You are able to get quick attention to your group’s messages from 5000 members but you are not able to get attention to your fan’s update from your 50,000 fans.

2.Group’s messages appears in the live notifications but fan’s update does not appear in the live notifications.That’s y messages get more attention than updates.

3.Groups have more active discussions and participants but discussions in fan pages are not much active when compared to the discussions in groups.

4.Fan pages are for oneway promotions means only the administrator of fan page gets benefits from the fan pages and the fans are not able to get benefits from fan pages.

5.Unlike in groups, fan pages are targeted for a specific website or business so fans have no benefits from their fan pages.

6.Though both in fan pages and groups,fans and members are able to post links in the wall respectively.But only members are allowed to post links in groups and fans are not allowed to post links in fan pages.

7.You are able to invite your friends from other services like hotmail,yahoo and gmail in groups but you are only able to send suggestions to anyone except to your facebook friends.

8.You are able to add a personal message with invitation in groups but you are not able to add a personal message with suggestions in fan pages.

9.Administrators are visible in groups but they are not visible in fan pages.

10.You are able to approve requests for particular new members in groups but you are not able to do this in fan pages.You can just hide your fan page for a particular country or for a particular group of people.

11.You are able to make group members as officers but you are not able to make fans as officers in fan pages.

12.Any members of group are able to see the list of all other members in group but only admin’s are able to see the list of all fans in their fan page.

13.Members are allowed to upload videos in groups but fan are not allowed to upload videos in fan pages.

14.You are able to provide privacy types such as public,closed and secret only in groups but you are not able to provide privacy types in fan pages.

15.Group events are more active than fan page events.

16.Last but not least,you are able to create more fan pages using groups but you are not able to create more groups using fan pages.

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