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

By: Kimberly Yow

Kimberly Yow — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:44:09 +0000

Hi Louise – Facebook does not automatically create any links from your business fan page to your personal page. However, if you click “like” under one of the posts on your fan page (and you are using Facebook as yourself, not your fan page), fans will see “Louise M……” likes this”.

Be sure to adjust the privacy settings for your personal page (under the Account menu in the upper right hand corner of your Facebook screen) if you want to restrict who can see info on your personal page.

Kimberly

By: Louise

Louise — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:26:28 +0000

I want to keep my personal page private. I want my fan page to be public. Can I do this? (I do not want people to be able to get to my personal page from my fan page).

By: Kimberly Yow

Kimberly Yow — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:01:30 +0000

Hi - You'll find instructions on my other blog at http://www.marketingthatseasy.com/blog/2009/07/deactivate-reactivate-or-delete-facebook-account/.

By: circe

circe — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:25:43 +0000

how could I deactivate or delete my fan page on facebook? kindly answer. thanks.

By: veterinary technician

veterinary technician — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:47:48 +0000

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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.