Comments on: Facebook Profiles and Pages

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By: Debra

Debra — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:06:35 +0000

Unfortunately I don’t believe so at this time. There’s a discussion thread on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn#/topic.php?topic=8952&post=50674&uid=10381469571#post50674 that several people have asked this same questions. My answer for most is to create the Fanpage and send a status to all your friends to please become a fan. Since you don’t need to approve fans, the process is rather easy. I would hope that Facebook would make this available as they do discourage businesses from creating personal profiles.

Thanks!

By: staticsid

staticsid — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:36:15 +0000

Is there a way to convert an Individual profile to a Page ? I have a business that was initially started on a profile and has yet not come under FB’s scanner. It’s got about a thousand friends added to it, so i don’t want to go through the process of adding fans again. Any recourse ?

By: Debra

Debra — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:46:25 +0000

Hi Mike,

I believe that is done on purpose. Facebook distinguishes between a person and an entity/business/persona. A Page represents the entity and the Profile represents a person. Only people can make comments on a Facebook page.

Where this concept breaks down is as an admin, I can’t comment on any page for which I am an admin from my personal profile. Any comment or post to the page comes from the page itself, not me personally.

I would assume in the future this will change, as will a few other areas of Pages that is counterintuitive (like authorizing someone else to own the page other than the original creator).

If someone knows how to do this, let me know as I don’t beleive it is possible.

By: Mike Spitzer

Mike Spitzer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:27:00 +0000

There is still one FaceBook feature I can not figure out.

Whenever I post a comment to another person’s page, it always shows as my Personal Profile (Michael Spitzer) making the comment, I can not make it show my comments as my Business Page entity (Valve Amp USA)

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:55:59 +0000

Thanks Debra!
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By: Debra

Debra — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:47:38 +0000

Hi Marcelo,

Unfortunately right now there is no way to comment on the page as a fan and not the admin if you are the admin. There’s a pretty lengthy discussion on Facebook about this topic:

http://en-gb.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10381469571&topic=8621&post=47620

When this changes, I’ll be sure to publicize this as it seems to be a very popular request.

Cheers!

By: Debra

Debra — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:24:29 +0000

Hi Kattsi,

As far as I know, there is no way to convert a page into a personal profile. Why would you want to convert a page into a profile? If your page is about your business, then your fans are there for a reason. You can still interact with them and invite them to also friend you if that’s what you want. There is a product from SocialToo that you can install on your personal profile that enables you to update your status across your page, profile and Twitter.

Hope this helps.

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:56:58 +0000

Hi, very interesting article. Maybe you can help me with a problem I have in a facebook page. I’ve created the page, so I am the administrator of it. But now I want to add comments to the page with my facebook profile and everytime I write a comment the name of the facebook page appears as the sender. I want MY name to apperar as the sender of the comment. Is it possible to accomplish that? o to transfer the ownership of the page to other facebook user so that I can comment in the page? Thanks!

By: the healthy islander

the healthy islander — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:22:55 +0000

Hi,
thanks for this great explanation.

I stumbled over this site when I was searching for ‘how to change your facebook page into a facebook profile.

Is there any way to do it, so that I can keep my records and fans?

Thanks for help!

kattsi