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bcm

Reputation: 5500

What is the difference between Apps and Pages in Facebook?

When to use which? They look the same when I click on either from their directory other than being named differently.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5713

Answers (3)

ifaour
ifaour

Reputation: 38135

  • Applications have pages to describe them, make fans (the act of liking the application) these pages are just profiles to the application.
  • Applications also can have canvas pages, these aren't actually facebook pages...these are the landing pages for your application hosted on your server. Mainly you'll be asked to install the application (game) before accessing it.
  • Applications can be added to pages and users.

Upvotes: 1

insomiac
insomiac

Reputation: 5664

Facebook Page is a like an open group. It can to used to form a group for public figure or to form some open group like "StackOverflow lovers" etc, where you a creator acts as a admin, and there are discussion boards(to discuss an issue), events(to organize an event), notes(to create some document for page), photos (to create album).

And regarding Facebook App have two things Profile page and Application page, it is a Profile page of the Facebook App which looks similar to Facebook page which gives you information about the App. Well, if you want to go to Application page Click on "Go to App".

Upvotes: 0

Kieran Andrews
Kieran Andrews

Reputation: 5885

A page is a simple thing that displays information about something.

An app is something that can be installed and is more complicated and can run code as per the Facebook API.

Applications are things like games and quizzes. Pages are for the "fans" of businesses, musicians, actors, etc.

All the information about apps: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas/

Upvotes: 1

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