Comments on: Unlink A Facebook Fan Page From Your Personal Account

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:33:52 +0000

Since I don’t know how you did your account(s) set-up, I’m afraid I can’t directly answer your question. Try reading this new blog I just posted http://www.howtousefacebookforbusiness.com/2010/06/unlink-facebook-fan-page-from-personal-profile-remove-fan-page-creator/ to see if it helps you. – Kimberly

By: Shawna

Shawna — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:10:41 +0000

I ran into this today as well- this post was very helpful, however, even after I made my personal profile an Admin of my page, Facebook won’t let me deactivate the other profile connected to my business page. It keeps saying I need to transfer ownership (which I thought I did, when I created my personal profile as Admin)- any thoughts?

By: travis

travis — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:13:45 +0000

Yep, just ran into this shit today while trying to figure out how to bypass my personal page. This is crazy. FB needs to change the whole mechanics to make things more fluid. This shit makes me pouty~!lol Destroyed my business model and wasted my time. But alas, I will take the long route, thx kim

By: Ken Hood

Ken Hood — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:49:32 +0000

Dave- you are a hero. I have been setting up Fan Pages for a number of clients and was concerned about the “what if” Facebook deactivated my account for any number of dumb reasons (many posts on that subject) or worse yet, God forbid, I died and my family simply deactivated or deleted my account due to that tragedy.

I have an ethical responsibility to my clients that my death and deleted personal account would not cause them business disruption.

Of course I have made each of them (they are small business owners) an admin of their page. But as has been discussed ad nauseum on the web, if I am the creator, my personal account is “glued” to their Fan Page.

Thanks again for testing this.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:47:10 +0000

Hi Inigo – When you click the “Share” button in Facebook, anything that you share will automatically be posted to your Personal Profile. You do NOT have a choice. There is not currently a way to use the share feature and post to your fan page. You need to go to your fan page and type a status update and attach a link to the video or website or whatever you want your fans to see. This is the long way, and yes it does suck, but it is the only way to do it at this time.

By: Inigo

Inigo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:22:35 +0000

This sucks! i cant belive theres no way to do it!
My problem is that sometimes i want to upload something like a video from the web or a link on my facebook fan page but it gos to my personal page because their linked. So how can i fix or do to upload something and choose facebook , you know when u go share ! and go to my fan page and not my personal one!.
Well thanx ill apreciate the help!

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:10:27 +0000

This is great Dave! Thanks for testing this AND for sharing your findings on this blog! – Kimberly

This solution of course is only for fan page creators who don’t mind having their personal profile/account “deactivated”. (See my blog post http://www.marketingthatseasy.com/blog/2009/07/deactivate-reactivate-or-delete-facebook-account/ for info on deactivating, reactivating & deleting a Facebook account.)

By: Dave Fluegge

Dave Fluegge — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:16:58 +0000

Actually, for everyone’s reference…I have tested this. I created a test account, then my test account created a test fan page. From my personal page I joined the test fan page & was promoted to admin.

I did some posts from both accounts, then deactivated the test account. The test fanpage was still active, & the messages left on the wall from the test account were still visible (as fan page). As a side note, I also reactivated the test account & this account was set right back as account creator on the test fan page. I hope this answers the question; bottom line, you can delete a fan page creator account w/out deleting the fan pages it created (assuming there is another admin on the page, I did not test that).

-Dave

By: Dave Fluegge

Dave Fluegge — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:43:21 +0000

I have the same question as Linda. Does anyone out there have any answers regarding this? Would like to delete an old account that setup the fan page, but don’t want the fan page to disappear.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:16:17 +0000

I haven’t tested what you described but based on what I have tested and what I’ve read on the Facebook site, I believe any Fan Page that you create will be deleted when you delete your Facebook account.