WARNING: This Feature Should ONLY BE USED IF YOU NO LONGER WANT TO ACCESS, CHANGE OR ADMINISTER A FAN PAGE THAT YOU CREATED!!
You can now unlink a Facebook Fan Page from your personal account if you no longer own the company or if you created a fan page for someone else and you need to transfer it to them!! This feature has been requested by many users and is finally here! You can now easily remove the creator of a Facebook Fan Page from the admin by following the steps below:
- While logged in, go to the fan page you want to unlink from your personal profile and completely give up access to.
- Click “edit page” under the photo/logo area and locate the Admin Section on the next screen.
- If you are the only admin: ADD a 2nd admin (THEY MUST HAVE A FACEBOOK “PERSONAL ACCOUNT” OR THEY CANNOT BE A FAN PAGE ADMIN!!…and…the 2nd admin must be someone other than you since it is against Facebook terms to have more than one Facebook account).
There must be
at least 1 admin at all times. If there is only 1 admin, and you remove that admin, your fan page will disappear immediately! - Refresh your page if you just added a 2nd or extra admin and the name/photo of the extra admin doesn’t automatically show up in the list of admins.
- Make Sure You “SEE” AT LEAST TWO (2) ADMINS “BEFORE” you do this step! Once you complete this step, the extra admins listed in the admin section of the fan page will have total control over the fan page and YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY ACCESS TO THE FAN PAGE! If you are sure this is what you want, look for the “remove admin” link under your name in the admin section. Simply click the “remove admin” link and the 2nd (or extra) admin will now have control over the fan page and you the creator will not have access.
- Refresh your page. You will be taken back to your Facebook home page since you no longer have access to the fan page you were editing.
If you are the creator of a fan page and wish to remain an admin, be CAREFUL who you add as an admin because once you add them they can remove your admin privileges.
What do you think about this new feature? Are you one of the many that had been hoping Facebook would eventually allow fan page creators to unlink a fan page from their personal profile?
Do you foresee any problems with this new feature?
Your Facebook Informant,
Kimberly Yow
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Hi
Thanks for the info. I don’t want a personal account with FB at all. Is there a way to have a business fan page and for the creator to be virtually invisible?
The answer is ‘yes’. I’m hoping that you haven’t created a personal account yet. Take a look at this blog post which I just published: http://www.howtousefacebookforbusiness.com/2010/07/facebook-business-account-versus-personal-account/.
I have been WAITING for this feature!! So relieved its finally here!
Apperently I am not allowed to create a administrator profil, according to the “EULA”, since all profiles must be personal…
Facebook only has two types of accounts…a Personal Account and a Business Account. (There is no such thing as an Administrator account.) Both account types can create Business Fan Pages. Read http://www.howtousefacebookforbusiness.com/2010/07/facebook-business-account-versus-personal-account/ to decide which account is right for you or your business.
I have wanted this feature for a long time but now that it’s here, I have a different problem. Besides our main national Facebook business page, my company asked me to set up local Facebook pages for our many local offices and franchises but we want to retain ownership and overall control of the local pages at home office while appointing and allowing local administrators to be responsible for most of their local content and daily upkeep. Our fear now is that some local employee or franchisee could potentially remove home office from any administrator position, shut out home office altogether and hijack the local page. Is there a way to retain some sort of “chief administrator” position that cannot be removed by a local administrator? All it takes is one rogue, disgruntled employee to hijack a local page and use it as his own platform to badmouth the company and I’ll have a lot of trouble on my hands. We trust our employees but sometimes franchisees and their employees come and go. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Your question: “Is there a way to retain some sort of “chief administrator” position that cannot be removed by a local administrator?”
Answer: NO. Any admin can remove any or all other admins.
Perhaps you can help with MY issue:
I have 2 pages: Personal/ Fan
I would like to keep both… but I want to have the fan page as the default log in. This is what I need:
1. I need youtube to publish my videos TO the fanpage NOT my personal page (But bcz the main login is the personal page the credentials saved on youtube default to personal page publishing)
2. I need updates sent from my blackberry posted on the fan page (for the same reason above)
Please help me learn how to do this. I want to control both pages, but I would like to just have default publishing to the fan page. This should be standard. I dont really see the benefit of having the public stuff posted on a personal page instead of the public one.
Thanks for your help. I appreciate it in advance
-Tko
Your comment: “…I would like to just have default publishing to the fan page.”
1) Search for “YouTube” applications within Facebook to see if any of them allow you to post directly from YouTube to your fan page.
2) To my knowledge, when using a laptop or desktop computer, there is no way to make publishing to the fan page a “default”. However, I am unfamiliar with smart phone apps so I don’t know if it’s possible from an app.
Is there any way to reverse this. I added what I thought was a second admin.
The dialog asked to find friends to appoint as administrator. I didn’t want that so I just typed in a new email address in the bottom box.
It unlinked from the personal page and now does not show “edit page” on the business page.
I now have no way to edit my business page.
Bryan – We corresponded via email a few times but I never heard whether or not you got this issue resolved.
Someone -outside of our company -created a facebook business page. It has over 200 fans -who have been active with great comments, despite the lack of admin for this page. No one inside the company has had admin rights or knows how to access it. I am now the new marketing/promo person – Is there any way to avoid creating a new page and asking people to move?
Hi Colleen – You either need admin rights or you need to contact Facebook and prove the fan page belongs to your company. It is extremely difficult to contact FB so I wouldn’t hold your breath on that option. If you haven’t already, you should probably do as you suggested (create a new page & ask people to join it). You can post a status update with a link to the new company fan page on the old fan page as long as you are a fan of the old page.
Kimberly, hi. Can you tell me if the Fan Page then becomes linked to the new administrators personal page, or will it just be a dedicated Fan Page?
Thanks.
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Thanks for posting your question Mary!
NO, it will not be a dedicated fan page…meaning it will not stand on its own. Every fan page “must” be linked to a Facebook account. It either has to be linked to a Business Account or a Personal Account. There has to be at least 1 admin at all times. If there is only 1 admin, and you remove that admin, your fan page will disappear immediately! I have heard of this happening a couple of times and the Facebook users have NOT been successful in contacting Facebook to see if the fan page could be restored. They ended up starting all over with a brand new fan page with zero fans.
To be perfectly clear, there has to be at least 1 admin at all times. If there is only 1 admin, and you remove that admin, your fan page will disappear immediately!
hi, Great info!
Thought this article would help me, but it does’nt. Can you pleaseeee try to help me.
I have personal page that i got few years….. recently i decided to put my business FB together. I inadvertantly started another “personal” page which i do not use but got my business page through this 2nd unwanted personal page. i also got a custom “url” that unknowingly when signing up it wouldpoint to my unwanted/unused FB persoanl page.
so, i want my buusiness page to have the custom” url” and delete the persoanl page it is “attached” to. the only way i can access my business page is to go through this unwanted personal page by going to “account” (top right of page) and clicking “manage pages. please help, i want to connect my twitter,blog,yelp and a few other sites with my custom url but need to resolve this problem first, thanks!
Hi Char,
A couple of things to know:
1. Once you set a (custom) vanity URL for a fan page, you cannot change it or transfer it to another page or profile.
2. Once you set a vanity URL for a personal profile, you can only change it once…and you cannot transfer the URL to another profile or a fan page.
3. This article, where you left your comment, should help you add a 2nd admin (your original personal account) to your business page. Once you know that you can log in to your original personal account AND access your new business page, you can remove the original creator of the business page which was your 2nd unwanted personal account.
4. Once you no longer need the 2nd unwanted personal account, you’ll need to ask Facebook to delete it…see http://www.marketingthatseasy.com/blog/2009/07/deactivate-reactivate-or-delete-facebook-account/ for instructions.
We have a Fan Page that I unfortunately deleted the page admin for. The page presently has no “ownership or administrative” capabilties to my knowledge. There is no 2nd admin account with no “Manage Pages” or “edit Page” capability.
A personal profile was inadvertly associated with it while trying to integrate a new application.
Can deleting the profile and reaxctiviating the account restore the ORIGINAL page administration? Do you know of a fix for this?
Hi Mac – There is no current solution for regaining access to a fan page once the last admin has been deleted. Sorry for the bad news! – Kimberly
HI,
Accidentally I deleted myself as admin of my fanpage. There is now admin now
I made new page but the old one is still active. How can I remove the old fanpage?
Thanks for reply.
Hi Michal – You cannot delete a fan page unless you are an admin. If I ever find a solution for this problem, which many Facebook users have, I will definitely post a blog about it. – Kimberly
Hi Kimberley,
great info, thanks..
we have a facebook account for our business which we initially set up as a personal account. Then realising the errors of our way we set up a fan page for our business, which we publish all our content to. However, the personal page is called ‘our business’, while the fan page is ‘our business at location’. Now we are getting people wanting to become friends of ‘our business’, and other people becoming fans of ‘our business at location’. We want to stop people becoming friends of ‘our business’ (as we don’t post there) and instead become fans of ‘our business at location’. Is there a way to disable the ‘our business’ page (which is the login for ‘our business at location’) so that people only ever see ‘our business at location’?? we have over 5,000 fans so we can’t really start over again!
thanks!
Hi Cyril – It sounds like your “our business” page is really a personal profile. If that is the case, log in to Facebook, click on Account, then click on Account Settings. Now click on the “Change ” link for the Name field. Change the name of the personal profile from “our business” to an individual’s name. According to Facebook’s terms & conditions, a personal profile is always supposed to be in the name of an individual and each individual should only have one Facebook account. Can you change the name of the personal profile to your name or perhaps the owner of the company? – Kimberly
P.S.- If you want assistance transferring ownership of the fan page to the business…versus a personal profile…I can provide consulting for you.
I CREATED A PAGE UNDER A NEW PROFILE. I MADE MYSELF AN ADMIN UNDER AN OLD PROFILE. CAN I DELETE THE NEW PROFILE AND STILL HAVE ACCESS AND BE AN ADMIN UNDER THE OLD PROFILE.
Hi Jon – You can delete any admin you want as long as you ALWAYS HAVE AT LEAST ONE ADMIN for a business fan page. Make sure your “old profile” name/photo displays as an admin AND that you can log in and manage the fan page under the old profile BEFORE you delete the “new” profile. – Kimberly
Hi Kim,
Thanks for all the great info. I tried to “Add Aministrators” to a company fan page, so it’s no longer linked to my personal page. But is appears as though they need to be my “friend” before I can add them as an Admin.
Is this true?
Thanks,
_Steve
Hi Steve – No, someone does not need to be a Facebook friend in order for you to make them a business fan page admin. But, if they aren’t a friend, you do need to know their Facebook login email address. Make sure you see their photo/name displayed as a new admin BEFORE you remove yourself as an admin! – Kimberly
HI, Accidentally I deleted myself as admin of my fanpage. There is now admin now
I made new page but the old one is still active. How can I remove the old fanpage? Thanks for reply.
Hi Nona – To my knowledge, there is no way to remove a fan page unless you are an admin of it OR unless you are successful in contacting Facebook. I know of several folks who have done the same thing as you and none of them have been able to contact Facebook. I wish I had a better answer for you! – Kimberly
Hi Kimberly,
I have created a fan page for a client,when she logged in it prompted her to enter profile info(i think she shouldn’t have done that).how can we undo that?
she sees 2 user now her fan page + this new profile that she has just created,filled in.
thank you
If your client was logging into a Business Account…and clicked “Create a Profile” in the blue navigation bar at the top of their Facebook screen…they converted their Business Account into a Personal Account and this CANNOT be undone! If they do not want their Personal Account, they will need to deactivate it and/or ask Facebook to delete it.
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