So after a long time of avoiding my account I have actually been putting it to use finding people lately but considering that Facebook is now a quasi-official military outlet I decided to create a page for my office function. It is actually quite practical since part of my function requires me to take digital pictures and it is pretty inconvenient to distribute them now that there are onerous restrictions on flash media. So I've created a small government page, the type you become a "fan" of not "friend" and then I was prompted to enter my password. So now this page is going to be associated with my account. No real problem but I'm wondering if anyone here knows if you can, and how to, hand it off to another party. The reason is I don't foresee me holding the position for too many more months but it would be nice if I could reassign the page to my replacement.

So, when I say I was avoiding my facebook page it is more that I had little interest in it. I created an account a long time ago when I was trying to find some info on David McHale. I had heard he was ill but you never know the truth online. He seemed cool on the internet but other than the fact that he authored some cool MotS stuff and lived in the UK I don't know anything else about him. So, on that note, it would be interesting if someone here knows anything about how he is.

Anyway, Facebook has started to get pretty big in the military so I decided to start using my account the past few months. Lately I got much smarter at finding people and discovered a few (three) good friends from over 20 years ago that I feared I would never contact again. One actually lives within an hour and a half of me which is cool since we're now in Kansas and knew each other in Rhode Island. Another lives in my home state of Washington and the other very near where I thought he would in Minnesota.

I used FB for a month or two last spring, and then bailed out because it was taking up too much of my time. But I've gone back to it, I've been able to reconnect with some old friends too.

Per your question, no, I don't have the foggiest idea how the fan pages work. Sorry.

I held out on signing up to Facebook for as long as I could, but then I got sick of finding out so many gatherings of my friends were being exclusively organised on it.

I've grown to...tolerate it.

As for your question, I'm pretty sure you CAN hand over a fan page to someone else - just not sure how

If you're new to Facebook, heed this warning. Beware of third-party applications. All those quizzes and questionnaires and superwalls and things? They're scams. Most of them, anyway. To take a simple quiz, you need to install an application onto your page - and this application now has all the information on your profile and all your friends' information too. These applications collate and sell your information. Avoid them.

I think for fan pages, they run like the group pages - as an admin you can appoint someone else to an admin and then remove yourself from being an admin thus letting the other person have control of the page. Not really sure though...I've seen fan pages change hands before, so I pretty sure it can be done. It'd probably be somewhere under member settings...or some like-named part of the page.

It was actually pretty easy to figure out but I was kind of burned out last night. The answer is that I can appoint as many friends as I want as Admins but there currently is no way to remove an admin.

I took one quiz just because. I was very skeptical by all the warnings but I did the one. There is also one other countdown app that I couldn't resist. I don't bother with any games and I hide any Friend's games posts that show up on my page.

For me the most addictive part was waiting for messages from some of my long lost friends. I've decided to upload pictures as a way to share with friends and family that I'm normally not good about staying in contact with.

Wookie: Don't know, sorry.

Mort-Hog: While I agree, Facebook has been cracking down more on that (I know because I've had to review compliance issues with their new TOS against the games I test, and that's one of the things covered). Just thought I'd throw that out there.