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In a landmark decision, Facebook now allows normal group owners to have their Facebook Groups merged into their Facebook Pages. I heard about this on Inside Facebook a few weeks ago but wanted to verify that it worked for me. It does!

Some of you will remember my very public bitchin about Facebook Groups vs. Pages from back in December. I spoke at the Web Community Forum thanks to an invite from the wonderful Teresa Valdez Klein. It seemed then and up till a few weeks ago that Facebook didn’t really know what to do about the discrepancy between group and page functionality. Things got so testy, we actually started a Page to complain about the problems with Groups vs. Pages

About a month ago, they started moving sponsored groups over to pages, but when I asked if they’d do it for me, they were all, “No, you’re not Apple. Go back to your fragmented and confusing world!”

Now they’ve come around.

here’s what you do

• Go to this generic Facebook help form.
• Subject should be: convert group to page
• In the body provide the URL of the group and the page

voila!

My stats are still broken on the “Ads and Pages” dashboard, but that’s less important right now.

Check out my Page and become a fan! A GRAND UNIFIED FAN.