I have created a group and a fan page for my University. I have read from other places that it is better to have the group instead of pages. Here’s a comment someone wrote named Elijah from this site http://www.searchenginejournal.com/facebook-group-vs-facebook-fan-page-whats-better/7761/:

Groups, in terms of marketing tools, are simply far superior for viral and niche marketing. Fan Pages tend to be just that. Ask yourself: If you, say, owned a gym, do you want people to be a “fan” of your gym or do you want them to “join.”

Therefore, is it okay to have a fan page and a group page?

In your situation, it makes more sense to use a group instead of a page in Facebook. With a group, you can control who has access to the content. You won’t have information on traffic to the page, but for the girls’ privacy it’s a necessary tradeoff.

Another option is not to use Facebook at all, but instead to set up a blog on wordpress.com. You can restrict visibility to just users you choose. Anyone would need to create a WordPress.com account, which is free, and then you would grant access to them. You can permit access for up to 35 users, and then pay more if there are more with whom you want to share.

Why use Wordpress.com instead of Facebook? Facebook has changed its privacy settings several times in the past year, with the result that some people have had information they thought was private become exposed to others they didn’t intend. With a private Wordpress.com blog, you would be storing and sharing your data in a more stable setting.

On the other hand, if most of the parents and leaders of the scout troop are already on Facebook, they would likely find it more convenient to have the group located there.

I hope I haven’t created more questions than I’ve answered. :)

I am chaparoning my Niece’s girl scout troop on a one month long TREK. We want to create a facebook “page” so we can provide updates to the parents back home and the other girls that aren’t going on the trip. We also want to include data for future chaparones so they know in detail all that is needed to get all the correct certificates etc.

What we don’t want is for the general public to be able to read the girls stuff. I had thought to create a “page” rather than a “group” but when I read that this facebook page can be viewed by the entire facebook community, I am worried about protecting the girls.

What do you recommend? I thought I could create a page that we only allowed parents and girls to “see” and that we would approve their membership to the page.

Obviously I am a brand new facebook person so I apogize for asking questions that might have obvious answers.

Thanks