Facebook
Facebook Groups
- Has a set look for all groups
- Can enable or disable discussion board, wall, photos, videos, links, related groups, related events
- Cannot rearrange elements on the group's web page
- Limited amount of basic info you can post at the top of the group's web page
- Can easily message all group members
- Can change your group type at any time
- When a group administrator posts to the group, it appears as though that individual posted it
- Group admins' names appear on the group's web page
Facebook Pages
- Starts out with a "wall" page that shows recent posts, like individual profiles
- Supports multiple "tabs" (or "pages") that can have different content
- Can include any applications you want (wall, photos, etc) on different tabs
- Allows you to add blocks of artibrary HTML so you can show anything you want
- Allows you to rearrange the applications on the page
- No way to easily message all page fans
- Cannot change the page type after it's created
- When a group administrator posts to the group, it appears as though the page posted it
- Page admins' names do not appear on the web page
- Provides a Facebook "badge" you can put on your other websites that includes the logo, name and counts of updates and fans
- Allows you to have a "username" for your page so you can have a shorter URL
