You can now migrate your personal profile into a page. Although it is hardly revolutionary, it was an interesting step for Facebook. This means that you will have to trade all of your friends for likes if you opt for the change.
But be careful before you decide to change your personal profile into a page, because you can never go back. Well at least not for now. The move is in response to popular people on Facebook who have reached the 5,000 Facebook friend limit. But it’s an interesting move because many popular people have already created pages for themselves. Why create the formal ability to make the shift and openly publicize it?
Is Facebook becoming more about promoting yourself as a brand than connecting with friends? The world’s largest social network was built on creating connections between people. Your friends were the people you knew or the ones you had at least met in person. But it seems Facebook is starting to strategy from its roots. Now that the world of business had embraced Facebook as a core-marketing vehicle, Facebook seems to be shifting towards them. If people start abandoning their profiles for pages, all that will be left are a bunch of people who like you.
It makes you wonder if you want to be connected to a bunch of your friends or people who like you. Although it’s merely semantics, it is definitely something to think about as social networks continue to grow and evolve. Important questions to consider are: What is the purpose of your Facebook page? and What does a “Like” mean to you?
