No. I will not fan you, your brand, or your blog. I find it funny that quasi-famous bloggers feel the need to create a Facebook ‘Fan’ page for themselves. Sure, many people are well-respected, followed by hundreds of thousands of individuals, and want to interact with them all (Matt Mullenweg and Gary V), but the majority of you do not; a few hundred or few thousand ‘fans’ are worthless (prove me wrong?). Jeff may disagree, but I see no purpose in becoming a ‘fan’ of a friend’s blog, or their brand, or their product, or whatever on Facebook. That only serves that individual’s own ego and their desire to grow some metric that rarely translates to value (monetary, goodwill, etc.). Social media: don’t just do it because everyone else is. (I realize this is not new thinking, but I wanted to publish it so my stance is clear. Feel free to point your friends here when you get a ‘Fan’ request.)
I agree for the most part, but it is a good medium for updating those that want to keep up with your service. Through messages on your fan page or whatnot, people see that in Facebook and it can be helpful.
I sort of fall into that boat. I setup a fan page for 2 reasons: getting friend requests from people i don’t know, thus inferring they wanted to follow what I was doing, and I didn’t want to lose them completely.
The other reason was for experimentation purposes, so I can try things out in my personal petri dish of sorts.
I don’t really care if I have 1 or 1000 fans of my personal page, but it does help keep these people out of my real friends list.