Thank you for commenting on my blog. I admire your university’s debate team!

I have not experienced the problem you are describing. I did not find the answer to your question on the events help page: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=413

However, at the bottom of the page, you’ll find a place to contact Facebook. I suggest posing your question there.

Tiffany

Here is a message from Facebook about how to delete a group. This will fix your duplicating content problem:

“Our system automatically deletes groups once they’re empty (no members). If you created the group or are one of the group’s administrators, the easiest way to delete the group is to remove all members and then remove yourself.”

Thank you for identifying that fans cannot be directly invited to events. Instead, we are limited to sending “updates,” which appear on the updates tab of each fan’s inbox.

Also, here is what I found from Facebook:

“At this time, it is not possible to message all the fans attending an event you have created on your Page. You will need to use the Page’s “Updates” feature in order to send out a message to your fans.”

and

“Facebook Pages do not yet have an Inbox. We may add an Inbox for private messages to Facebook Pages in the future. Until then, users cannot send private messages to your Facebook Page, and you cannot send users private messages from your Facebook Page.”

Good luck!

Well, I submitted a request via the Facebook contact section and within about 5 days or so I’d had a reply from them.

Facebook literally updates all your Group members profiles so that they are now fans of your pages.

It is worth noting that they still also remain members of the Group.

So I now have fans pages with around 1,500 members, plus a group with the same - so I am now in the position of still duplicating content.

I’m not sure what the best approach is.

One thing I have noticed, and perhaps someone can advise.

In a Fan’s page I’ve created an event, but cannot directly invite all the fans to it. All I can do it create an update.

Anybody know anything more about this?

I’m glad that my blog post was helpful! Please let me know how the experience of transferring to a fan page goes. Good luck.

Tiffany

This is great news… but on the flipside now means that I cannot invite them to this month’s event as I’ve had over 1,200 members now.

I’m going to try out the “convert to pages” option that you’ve spoken of - I am very relieved that this option is out there so thanks.

Thank you for joining this discussion. I do not have the answers to your questions — hopefully someone will. If you go through this process, I hope you will report back with your experience. Good luck!

Tiffany