Question about Facebook

by JB
2 replies
Does anyone know how to leave posts on a Facebook Page so that the message appears to have come from your regular FB page?

Eg, I have my friends page - I set up a biz page for my website, I keep my personal identity apart from my site administrator id. I want to post to the page as a member of the community and not as the administrator... is this possible? (hope you get what I mean)
Anytime I try to post a comment from my FB friends page to a thread on my Biz Page the post gets switched to the Page Admin id - even if I try posting from my friend page... seems like a shortcoming to me. Anyone know a way around this?

Thanks,

JB
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  • Profile picture of the author Devon Brown
    It's not entirely possible for your friends page to post to your biz page without being seen as the administrator. There's some screwy workarounds for it, but its quite a bit of work that could easily be rectified by just getting another account (which of course FB doesn't condone)
    If you have a second acct.. I would make that personal one the admin, and your regular friends one a member of the community. This way you can post as the biz and a member.

    Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisCree
    When you comment on a Facebook page and are logged into Facebook with a user account that has admin rights to the page, wall comments will show as coming from the "page" and not your username. Facebook does it this way so that the page can be completely separate from any user accounts.

    This is a challenge for pages that have multiple admins running them. Most businesses I know that want to acknowledge different admins on their Facebook pages have their admins leave their initials on every wall post so folks know which admin left which message.

    In theory, if you logged into Facebook with a different user account that doesn't have admin rights your wall comment would be that username and not the page name. But they cookie your browser so that might not work either. Plus I know they do track IP addresses because when I've logged in from an unusual location with my laptop when traveling I've had to answer a security question to verify I was really me so I don't even know if opening the other user account in a different browser (say IE & FireFox, for example) would work or not. But I suspect it would.

    Keep in mind, though, that creating more than one personal profile is a violation of the Facebook TOS so I don't recommend you go that route. If you do it anyway you risk getting your accounts shut down.
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