Hey, you got your Facebook Page in my Facebook Place! Hey, you got your Facebook Place in MY Facebook Page. If you're setting up a Page and including the map of your location, you may be allowing others to edit your Page.
So here's the value proposition. You enable the map on your local business page on Facebook, and Facebook will generously create a mapped location your fans (a.k.a. "likes) can check into and notify their social graph. But it appears by doing so, you leave the door open for the public to edit the place info, thus editing your Page.
Basics: As the Page owner, you can set your "Basic Information" to include the map of your location. By doing so, it appears you are claiming your Facebook "Place". As Places are editable by the public, your Info tab is open to edit those fields. See the "Edit" option in the tab and off to the right.
Now this might not be the biggest deal to some, but it can create havoc for brands. Especially regulated industries where you must list accurate info. Or if troublemakers wanted to come in and mess with you.
Funny thing is even if you disable the map to your page, the EDIT button on the upper right remains. Although it appears to be benign.
I guess it's now up to all of you to decide if claiming your Place within your Page is worth leaving it to others to define.
this is really interesting but seems like an easy fix for the facebook administration to take on though. I think it sounds crazy that any random person can go in and change the information about your business. Hopefully they'll figure out a way to avoid this sometime soon, unless they haven't already fixed it, i.e. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Best SEO Company | Dec 13, 2011 at 04:02 PM