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How to Separate or Unlink a Facebook Fanpage from your Personal account17
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How to Separate or Unlink a Facebook Fanpage from your Personal account?
Today we would be discussing a long prevailing question in the mind of many webmasters or brand owners, related to Facebook fan pages and the accounts related to them.
Problematic Scenario Explanation
You have a personal Facebook account that you have been using for quite a while. Now, as you also own a brand, you decided to create a Facebook page for your brand and ended up creating it using your personal account linked to it as Admin.
The Facebook page started to grow in the number of fans and activity when you realized that it is difficult to manage your personal and professional contacts / activities simultaneously using the same account. With this question in mind, you started to research on how to unlink or separate a Facebook fan page from your personal account.
Solution to the problem
As per Facebook support team, there is NO solution to this issue. They have confirmed on their help document that separation of your Fanpage from your account cannot be processed and transformed into a business fan page.
If you are planning to delete the account linked to the fan page, let me warn you that all the pages created with the ID would be deleted as well, so that’s the solution as well.
The Fix for the Problem
I will recommend a fix or a solution to this problem to unlink or separate your fan page from your personal account. It is very simple idea and basically is all about transferring the ownership of the page to another account and using that account only for professional purposes.
STEP 1: Create a new Facebook account in the Brand’s representatives name
Facebook only permits individuals to sign up as a member and hence it is important that you create another individual account preferably in the name of the individual closely associated with the brand or website.
STEP 2: Login to the previous account and assign the freshly created account as the Admin
As shown in the screenshot, you may add the newly created Facebook account as the Facebook Fan Page Admin and remove the existing user from the admin group. This action has simply set the Facebook fan page free from your old account and has link to the new account.
STEP 3: Login to the newly created account and select “Use Facebook as the fan page name”
This is the final step to ensure that your Facebook page has all the features of a complete brand page. As you click on this option, all the updates and posts that you make will be on behalf of your brand of page.
The best part of this process is that, you have your personal and business accounts separated and you may continue to enjoy using your personal account at full freedom not fearing of it disturbing your official or professional contacts.
Take Home: I personally suggest you not to mix your personal and professional worlds. If you have a Facebook fan page for your brand already linked to your personal account, use this tutorial. If not yet created, take the right step and create a new business account page from here. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to separate or unlink a Facebook Fanpage from your personal account
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Josh,
Very useful and handy article you have written today. Thanks a ton! Actually i dont have a FB fan page for my website, but this sure has opened my eyes to what to do..
cheers
Mani
Great! Thanks..
This was something that had always been bothering me, i thought there was no way out of this maze. Thanks for sharing the idea, was certainly helpful.
regards
Stacey
Very Helpful article! Thanks a lot for sharing. I have now successfully transferred my fan page ownership and its cool now.
Yo! Joe
Thanks for your post. I didn’t realize the mess I was creating when I set up a photo club’s FB page last year.
I have been able to successfully migrate it to a ‘generic person’ as the new admin following you steps above.
Thank you very much. I just ran into this problem and needed a solution and found your post.
I am interested in reading some of your other posts as I think they will be very helpful.
Again, thanks.
Thanks for the tips…format on Facebook is quite different now, but still managed to get the Page from the Personal…now to the marketing!
Thanks…as a ‘newbie’ webmaster/seo ‘guru’ – I’ll need all the help I can git!
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I have a few questions (great play-by-play, btw) …
-is there anywhere you can find a “pros/cons” list to having either a (1) personal profile controlling a fan page or (2) two separate accounts, under separate emails?
Right now, my set up is:
-a personal profile
-a fan page
-these are under different emails/accounts
What I find is:
-the fan page can’t “like” other pages
-i don’t (obviously) have access to my natural pool of “friends” from my personal account
-i can’t manage the fan page from my iphone (i’m usually logged into my personal page)
Are there any other pros and cons to either set up? Am I technically breaking their terms of use?
Thanks,
km
Seems like a lot of completely unnecessary work to me. I have multiple fan pages I administer from my personal account. There are no problems with that. Why log in twice? You cannot tell from the pages that I am the admin for them, so there’s no link to me personally. If you don’t want professional contacts to see your personal stuff…don’t add them as friends… pretty simple. Much easier than having to log into another account. When I want to interact as my business, I “act as page” and do it that way. As a business I don’t need to add friends or join groups. I guess I’m just not seeing why you would need to have two accounts.
Is that any way how i can migrate all my friends to fb page that i just unlink?
Hello and thank you for writing this informative entry!
This is my problem exactly and the solution you suggested was the only possible thing I was able to come up with…
I am trying to use an app by StoreEnvy that will enable me to add a storefront to my fan page when ever I try to apply an app a message pops up saying I must sign on to my personal account in order to use it. What should I do? Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you so much in advance. I hope to hear from you.
~Lizbeth
Would not work for me. It denied my request to become an admin saying I did not qualify.
Good information. I was able to unlink my pages but first I had to “like” the fan page with my new account otherwise it wouldn’t let me add the user as a manager. Someone asked why go through the trouble. It is easier to be able to go back and forth thru the accounts without logging in and out. But, for instance, if you are using Klout and trying to improve your social standings you aren’t able to link your FaceBook page to Klout if it is linked to a fan page.
Weird, I know, but that is the problem that I think I’ve solved, thanks for your great step-by-step help.
Jim
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Please help me. I followed your advice and created a new facebook account for a colleague and set his status ad admin manager. Deleted myself. Now his admin status is not showing and I no longer have admin rights. No one now has admin rights. I have searched google for hours and can not find any fix for this. It looks like our company facebook page is now in-operable. Is there anything we can do?
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