Who is on Facebook?

[lisarichards]

Do you have a fanpage for your farm? I've found it much easier to maintain a fanpage than a website. We still have the website, which is where we've been keeping a journal for over 10 years now. But for quickly contacting customers when we are going to have meat, for example, it's really handy to just post -- 15 chickens this weekend, who wants one?

I like to follow fellow homesteaders and small farms. Who has a Facebook fanpage?

Here is ours: Mack Hill Farm which is quite different than our website.

[triplejmom]

We do as well. You're a fan of my page and I'm one of yours..lol I think you have a great fan page. Here's ours http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/...a=7&ajaxpipe=1

[Patt]

We don't right now but it looks like a great idea. Can you keep it seperate from your personal page?

[lisarichards]

Yeah, it's a separate thing, but linked to your account.

One thing we've found is to not make both of us administrators, because then it's hard to tell who is speaking. So Frank just answers questions and such as himself, not as "mack hill farm", and I think that just works out better.

[CarolynRenee]

I'm on facebook personally, but I like the idea of having a page for the farm. Gonn'a go lurk on your pages now!

[Navotifarm]

I had a facebook page but cancelled it. I prefer this forum. However, my son has a facebook page. He got mad at me and "unfriended" me. He is an arrogant self-centered guy anyway so that was my only contact with him. I miss reading all his puffery about himself! How can I "lurk" and read his stuff as is suggested above? Don't you have to be accepted as a "friend" to read somebody's page?

[Ravenlost]

I'm on Facebook. I need to look into the fanpage thing too! Do you just set up a new Facebook account?

[shanzone2001]

I enjoyed looking at your farm pages!!!

[lisarichards]

There must be another way to access it, but sometimes the Facebook user interface is really obscure, and the only place I saw to do it was if you click on my fan page, in the bottom left hand corner of the page, it says "create a page for my business". That's who you would do it. It really must be somewhere else too, but I couldn't find it looking around for it this morning. I set up the page a couple of years ago now, and it's been pretty helpful. I try not to be spammy and put up usually one farm photo a day or a short video, and only pimp the stuff I sell every now and again. I also give away a really nice pair of wool socks from our sheepies every time we hit a big round number of the number of fans. This morning we hit #600.

There's also a way to limit the audience when you post something. So if I have pigs going off to freezer camp and need to sell a half or something, I can limit it to just people in NH, VT and MA, for example.

[DayBird]

I'm on facebook. Personally as Robert T. Day and then we have a seperate page for the birds as Daybird Aviaries.

[twospirit]

Hey Lisa! It just occurred to me that we know each other outside of this forum!

:banana02:

[Callieslamb]

I just have a webpage and that is hard enough to keep up with. It is mostly for my sheep - not a family blog....but I am considering combining them. Learning yet another kind of webpage...is beyond me now. Anyone give lessons?

[Rick]

Nice video of the baby piglets eating! We'd like to raise some in years to come.

I have a personal FB page.

[ronbre]

I am on facebook and welcome friends Brenda Kay Groth

however, I don't have a "fanpage" and really don't know how to go about it..but i am active pretty much daily on facebook and put a lot of photos in my photo albums..etc.

i don't play games.

[ChristieAcres]

I am on Facebook, but don't have a fan page. I also have a Blog, but should update it more often. We also have a website, but I am overdo to update it. That is a once/year thing, due to its content.