I was in your mindset for the longest time Ruben. Didn't get the whole facebook or any social-networking appeal, so it's not just the 50+ generation. I started using it just to see if there was anything there that we could use and I now see the appeal.
The biggest thing with fan pages is it's just another way to get the word out about something. We plan to use a few features of it, things like having an option for announcements to be posted to a specific facebook page. Users will be able to turn on an option so whenever they make a new topic it will post that to their facebook account (if the admin has turned it on of course).
