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Separating Business and Personal on Facebook

by Vcize
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I know FB allows us to create groups (IE "Friends/Family" and "Business Contacts") but as best I can tell you can only really select that when posting to your timeline. When I comment or post to a group or something there is no control, so my friends/family get a notification on their feed when I comment to someone about some new sales funnel I'm pushing or whatnot. I don't want them seeing all the IM stuff I'm hawking.

So what are people doing for this. Do you have separate accounts for your business and personal "personas"? I know it's against FB's terms but do they really enforce it if you're not doing anything crazy with that extra account?
#business #facebook #personal #separating
  • Profile picture of the author Leslie Fritz
    when you post to these pages you can edit the privacy, but my thought is they can scroll past. most of my post are business related and I haven't scared any friends or family off. Just be careful putting links and offers in unless it is from a fan page because FB will shut your account down.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vcize
      Unfortunately when posting to groups or commenting on posts there is no way to edit privacy.

      They inherit the privacy of the group/post being posted on. That makes sense in terms of who can view the post when they look for it, but I just want to tell facebook not to throw a notification up on all my friend's feed that says "Vcize posted in Sales Funnels for Savvy Internet Marketers".
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  • Profile picture of the author hynds
    For personal, I use my Facebook account (Facebook profile) and for business I make many Fanpages in order to advertise them, each fanpage for each niche I have. We need to separate all of them. IMO
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    • Profile picture of the author Vcize
      The problem is that pages have significant limitations compared to profiles. Friends receive much higher engagement than people who like your pages (which Facebook filters out aggressively). Also pages can't do a lot of things like post to certain groups (and when they can, again engagement is limited compared to a profile).
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