Although it isn't possible to create two separate Facebook accounts from one email address, it is possible to use Facebook as two or more separate entities from the same Facebook account. Namely, Facebook allows you to create 'Pages' for business and creative endeavors on which you embark and manage them from your personal profile account.
This is a third optionyou’ve probably run into on Facebook. Not only can you open a personal profile,or create a page, but you can also start a Group.When you start a group, you select the type of settings you want. You can havea group everyone on Facebook can see, or you can have a secret group that noone can see except members, or you can have a group people can find, but can’tsee the posts. I’ll devote an entire post just to Facebook Groups in the nearfuture. But there’s not nearly as much confusion about groups as there is aboutprofiles and pages. Only you can answer that.There are advantages and disadvantages to doing that. But no matter what youdecide, do it from a position of knowledge.
Don’t take someone’s word on whatyou can and can’t do on Facebook. Read the guidelines for yourself and make aninformed decision. Because, once you convert your personal profile to a page,the only way you can reverse it is to delete the account and start completelyover, or petition Facebook to make the reversal for you. Here is the link tothe Facebook Site Guidelines for this issue: Converting Your Facebook PersonalProfile to a Facebook Page. PLEASE CAN YOU HELPI HAVE JUST FOUND AN IMPOSTOR ACCOUNT WHICH HAS BEEN SET UP 3 WEEKS AGO BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION IN OUR BUSINESS NAME. MY WEB DESIGNER WANTS TO MAKE A BUSINESS PAGE WITH THE LINK TO OUR WEBSITE.
WE HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR 3 YRS ON FACEBOOK. IS IT ILLEGAL TO HAVE TWO FACEBOOK PAGES WITH THE SAME NAME PLEASE.
IMPOSTOR RELUCTANT TO CLOSE DOWN AS THEY SAY THEY HAVE 400 LIKES AND WE ARE NOT UP ON FACEBOOK WITH OUR NAME AS YET. IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET FACEBOOK ATTENTION TO BLOCK/CLOSE THIS ACCOUNT FOR ME PLEASE.I AM CONCERNED AS FEEL OUR BUSINESS IDENTITY HAS BEEN COMPROMISED.
I TRIED TO CONTACT FACEBOOK USING BLOCK/REPORT FEATURE BUT THIS DOES NOT WORK. I AM NOT SURE IF IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS IMPOSTOR ACCOUNT.MANY THANKS FOR YOUR HELPFUL REPLY TO MY QUERIES.YVONNE DALEYSPARKLES EMPORIUM. Yvonne, I'm not sure what you mean by 'impostor' account. If they have a Facebook page with the EXACT name as yours it is a problem.
But when I looked on Facebook, I only found one Sparkles Emporium. I did find another Sparkles, that has a different Facebook name - The All that Sparkles Glitter Corporation and Emporium.From what I've learned from Facebook, if the account name is worded differently, then it is a different page.
There are safeguards in place to keep two pages with the exact same name from being opened up. The second one to try would get an error message and not allowed to use that name. Feel free to email me with more information and I'll try to help if I can. Ediegmelson (at) gmail (dot) com. Blessings, Edie. AnonymousThey know because you might have the same IP or be posting a lot of the same things.This personal page versus fan page stuff becomes important.because they can't do the same things. Pages can't create events (as far as I've found).
You can't 'friend' people you can only 'like' other people.so that limits you with certain other pages. The functionality isn't exactly the same.People do have pages taken down. This can be bad if you have put a lot of work into it. I know of one instance where they just took it down.no warning.no chance to choose.Facebook doesn't really answer customer service inquiries, so it is best to avoid a problem. I was thinking about this extensively over the past month. I have an existing page that I've had since 2006, with tons of real friends.
The problem is that I work two seasonal (and very public) jobs. For part of the year (7 months), I'm involved in Canada's reforestation industry and I run Canada's main reforestation website.
For the other part (5 months) I work on music production and DJ'ing.I have already set up a fan page for both 'sides' of my life/personality. But it would be very good if I could run two personal accounts, and move all the DJ/music friends and acquaintances into a single account. Right now, if I post reforestation-related comments/posts, it is of no interest to my music-oriented friends from around the world.
And if I post news/editorials/comments about music and production, it is of no interest to my reforestation friends.I wish that I could have two separate personalities and just keep them semi-firewalled by not accepting friend requests into both accounts, so each account is essentially a unique individual identity. In my case, each account would be real, and far less confusing for friends.I'd considered trying to spend a lot of time organizing everyone into specific categories and customizing visibility of posts, which would solve most of the problem. But the issue remains that if someone else posts on my wall, I don't get to control which of the two subsets of friends sees the content. I'm also experiencing similar situations. It's just that in my case I need the multi-account for general-audience purposes and hobby-related purposes. This is because at college I'm mostly a rather serious person (both at nature and academically), yet I'm actually an active hobbyist and I also fangirl at so many things I like. Hobbyist as in, I do Japanese/Vocaloid cover songs, draw things, cosplays a bit, and do cosplay photography a lot.
I very much doubt that my older relatives would find any interest in that, and at MOST, I don't want my lecturers at college to find works I posted on their newsfeed either. So I do, really need the multi account.Dear Edie, I'm so waiting for your update on this topic.
Also, thanks a lot for writing/posting this! AnonymousI've only just managed to get back into my original Facebook account after being locked out because I forgot my password too many times. I found I couldn't use any of the other methods offered to sign in either. I tried requesting codes to be sent to my Hotmail account (which was registered together with another one I use regularly) but they never arrived.
I then tried logging in with my Windows Live account but, although a popup window appeared it was blank. Then it refused to acknowledge the answer to my security question! I hadn't registered a phone number or any 'trusted friends' so that method was out too.
So in desperation I set up a second account with my GMail email account. THAT actually worked! I tested it with a password reset code request and it arrived with no problem whatever! After several days of hunting around on the internet to find how to contact Facebook admin (Facebook don't make it easy to send messages to them and the FAQs don't help because they - like so many others - don't cover my situation) I found a blog that gave various links to the different aspects of Facebook that they don't advertise! I've sent messages to them to tell them what's happened and today something must have been done because I actually managed to sign into my original account!
The Hotmail sign-in popup wasn't blank any more so I'm now in that way! So far Facebook haven't contact me, but it's early days yet and it's also the holiday season. Once I find whether I can continue with my original account, I can sign in from both my PC and laptop and it's not just a temporary phase, I'll happily deactivate my second account. AnonymousWondered if there were any developments on this front.
I feel as if I need multiple accounts as I have my Personal Profile with 'Real' friends and family, on which I'm fairly inactive. However, I also feel as if I need another page to take care of a Business requirement (Holiday Let in Orlando) on which I'd like to join Orlando Vacation FB Groups etc. I think I am likely to be fairly active on these forums but don't want my family / friends to see everything I am posting necessarily.
Any solution other than multiple accounts - I have to confess I'm reasonably new to this and didn't particularly understand the difference between FB Personal Profiles and Fan Pages until I read the article above. Thanks, alan.
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