There has been a lot of talk on a number of forums of people making a lot of money with Facebook fan pages. There are people claiming to be making thousands each day with this method.
So are these people really making so much money with Facebook fan pages? The answer is it is difficult to know for sure but it is very probably they are.
With the amount of users on Facebook you only need a very smaller percent of people to be interested in your page to turn in a huge profit. So if your fan page catches on and is about a popular subject it is not unusual for pages to get 100,000 plus users - sometimes a lot more.
So people that are creating many of these pages can turn in huge profits. The key is automation and being able to create these pages quickly and promote them to your friends and people that would have an interested in the page.
There is software available that allows you to add a large number of friends quickly and then it is just a matter of telling your new friends about the Facebook fan page.
You can then be creative on how you make an income from these pages. There are many ways to do this and one of the most popular is content locking. This means you don't allow people see the content on the page until they fill out a bit of advertising. The advertising company then pay you for each person that fills out the offer. This will only work if the content you have is good and people really want to view it.