He has said he wants to still have somewhere he can interact with fans as he does on FB. He will be pursuing some alternative. I think his page is also being affected by FB's policy of removing Page Likes in order to try and force page owners to spend money "boosting" their page. They are doing this wholesale to business and pro-pages. Their assertion that they remove deactivated or inactive accounts if just obfuscation imo ..
It would be entirely reasonable that fans would like an artist's page to log their support and follow for notification of events only, and not see a reason to visit the page until an event was notified. Now FB is choosing to wipe them off, and they wouldn't even know. An average of 50-60 Page Likes are being removed daily. It is nonsense, and imo appalling.
FB makes millions from advertising that clutters up subscribers' pages, but not from business and pro pages. This is their way of trying to extort money from them.
I think we can expect the page to remain in January .. Meat will have other things to deal with. But when he gets out of hospital (and those who manage his page are back from holiday) he has said he will start looking into the future for interacting directly with his fans as he does currently on FB, that is he starts a thread with a statement or question, reads replies and pops in answers and comments, and fans can also "shout out" to the "also posted" column.
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