Do you have multiple Facebook accounts?

Well, of course it's against FB's TOS to have multiple accounts, so I can only hypothesize on this...

I guess in order not to get deleted or banned, they'd have to not do anything spammy or gross. Perhaps have a few friends of their own, post links and share, y'know, stuff that "real" accounts would do.

If you want to have multiple accounts on FB for your business. Make sure that you use different IP addresses in internet connections.

Before login into an account, clear cookies of your browser previously and use another IP address.

Or you use a proxy service. This way cannot work perfectly.

I have multiple account on FB... Its never banned

I have multiple accounts on FB. 1 personal and 2 fake accounts I use to market my affiliate products. Being that the 2 fake accounts are not really me but 2 hot chicks I posted from images I found on google images, you'd be surprised how quickly I developed hundreds of male friends with these pic. Men try to talk to me but don't even realize its another guy they're talking to! I've been building them up slowly adding about 5 friends a day so FB doesnt get wind of it. I've had them about 2 years now and I'm sure I've managed some sales from them. Go FB!

I did made some fake accounts also for marketing purposes. Maybe just as long as you keep some updates to it and ofcourse no spams, it could live.

Depends on how u use them... if you create an account with a fake name and immediately setup ads, FB might ask proof that you exist. That's what they did for me. I ended up losing my ad coupon code and the account

Nope. I still keep my second and third account in active and have a complete profile so not deleted by Facebook .
Facebook usually delete those profile that is created by robot , lack activities and update for years or none complete profile .

I'm still using the other two account to help me advertise purpose.

I have a multiple accts. too that still alive for almost 1 yr with XXXX of friends
You should be careful on adding some friends and should have a limit

I believe almost every internet marketer has several facebook accounts..

why have fake profiles if you can open unlimited fan pages and groups!

People usually have multipe accounts because they want to have more traffic for their blogs/website or they want to generate sales.

I only use the one account and manage clients fan pages through the principal account.
Having multiple ones are against Facebook's policy and it does risk getting banned so I'd rather play by their rules.

I think everyone who involve in facebook marketing has multiple facebook accounts. There are many Facebook program in marketing can help you to manage multiple accounts, save proxy and cookies for each account which can protect your accounts away from roadblock and disable. for example: Facebook FriendAdder Pro

I use only 1 account for the marketing of my products.
I think 1 account is enough for marketing.

I've got one account but many FB fan pages. I'm impressed at how good FB is at stopping different worlds colliding. Especially as some of my niches are a little dubious!

How much better than G+, where I was horrified to see my boss listed as a potential contact!

Well, some people get multiple accounts on facebook.But those won't be banned if you can handle them properly abiding by facebook TOS.

Use them like any normal person would, (not spamming, or not adding loads of people you don't know)


Why? Seriously think about it, how many households have more than one person using the same computer? All signed up to facebook. Unless your creating an unreasonable number of accounts you should be fine.


Too True, handle them properly and think long term.


Facebook claim to have over one billion active users, what are the chances that over 50% of those being people using multiple accounts? I'd say very high.

nope too damn complicated

Yes Dear, I have three accounts and i did'nt get any notification from Facebook.

sure, who hasn't?

The real facebook userdata - pool must be 4 times lower than the actual official fb users.

I haven't tried using multiple accounts in Facebook because it's indeed against their rules.
but I have multiple pages...

It's surely against the rules, but don't worry - no one will delete your accounts!
I've 3 accounts in facebook, 2 accounts for business purposes & 1 for personal use. Just clear your cookies & web-history before logging in any account!

I've 100 accounts in FB, there are no rules

What if a family of 5 had 5 diff accts? Mom, Dad, & 3 kids? All from the same ip. Does that mean fb would potentially ban them??

I have multiple facebook accounts and fanpages, so far I didn't get banned (well fortunately)..maybe because I got them all updated from time to time. Making it more real than fake so its really important to log in to all of these accounts from time to time. If you don't have enough time spending on updating accounts you can always outsource it. Besides the ROI of having accounts and fanpages are really big and worth more than the time being spent on maintaining all of the accounts.

I only have the one, my personal account that I don't tie in with forums at all. I've never played their games much, though if I did, I wouldn't deactivate and start a new account because I got tired of the games.

I have 5 fake accounts I just use for cpa...and 2 personal accounts! I have never had to deal with an account getting banned

I have 3, in different name.. lol

There are different reasons to have more than one account. For instance one can be your professional FB account. One you can link to employers when they want to know about you. Though I would suggest going onto linkedin to make a Professional profile to show employers.

Then you can have a friends FB account. Which is what I have, though it's under a false name.

I had been thinking about adding a fb account. Very good information. thanks

I have more than 15, with thousands of friends on each of them, but never get blocked any of them. Facebook check your IPs only suring the registration, so you will need different IPs only during registration, but it doesn't matter if you login to more than one (or 10) account from the same IP.

Imagine the public networks, for examaple in schools where 50-100 or even more account logged in daily, and it's all from the same network.

By not doing anythig spammy to some extent we can keep us from having getting deleted or banned. However, the control is not fully in our hands. It is in facebook's hands. Let us say suddenly one day Facebook decides to ban all the accounts that it suspects to be duplicated...and on that day what if Facebook deletes even the authentic account which one uses?

Yeah I have multiple accounts, trying a social marketing program to try and generate some sales. It seems to take a lot of time for very little returns though.

You can use proxies for that matter.

I have multiple Face book accounts and am using them for business purpose, and still they are working fine.

I find having more than one account gets too confusing....so, I have my main profile, but then I set up business pages for my other needs....then you are running everything from one dashboard. Just a clean way to go.

I have two personal and others are for the purpose of my business

I dont use fake accounts on Facebook, I am using 2 accounts for my personal and business, both FB accounts are doing well. no need to change IP for login,

I have several accounts on Facebook. None are deleted, banned or have any violations. There are rules to follow!

Do not ADD friends, make them ADD you!
Heres a screenshot that i JUST took now :
http://s30.postimg.org/du7f1eefl/sec.png

guess how many of those people I added? NONE
This is a secondary profile. there is a process FB uses to determine if youre spamming. basically you are allowed to add another person as a friend as long as you have engaged in messages prior to clicking one "add friend" otherwise your daily limit should be nothing over THREE friends per day. The script I use to add lots of friends (when I used to do this for each account I had) goes something like:

"hey i see we have a lot of friends in common. what is that you do?" " oh cool! would it be ok if i added you as a friend too?"

keep it simple. other than that... don't start group spamming and you should be ok. In the first month that the account is active FB watches you like a hawk so just be extra careful. One last thing... FB ads account... if you wanted to make a secondary ADs account.. use an alternate VERSION of your own name and ue a different card to link up and voila. I've had no issues with THREE different ads accounts. Good luck!

P.S.
It helps to have a phone # for each account too =)

If you admit to having more than one account anywhere online i.e. like this thread, do you realize that this info can be crawled and searched and end up in front of Facebook employees? And as it's against the TOS, then it's a problem for you.

Just a heads up.

I never know FB would ban any account. I have 5 or 6 account, 1 personal use, others are for business. I only use chrome to login, never cleared my cookies or history

I have two same name same profile pic. One personal / offline business and one strictly for marketing and online business. No issues ever.

I have only one face book account but have few pages.

It becomes harder and harder to maintain a large number of accounts, yet it's possible.

Yes, three in fact. I run custom scripts for marketing *auto posting* each with its own connecting to fb app

I agree with queenbuzzy, don't do anything you know is out of line and you'll be fine

I used to have a lot of facebook accounts before, and when I say a lot I mean almost a hundred. But that was before when facebook was not that strict, were you can add massively. Yes, it was for marketing and spamming but as I've said that was before ahaha

i have many accounts on facebook but i have naver banned... i have 5k, 8k and 13k followers...

I have two Facebook accounts. One is Personal and the other one is Professional.

I have a multiple Facebook account, But its not banned by Facebook . Once Strong in your Profile and chat with normally .

I've got one for friends and family and a separate profile for marketing purposes only. I never do any spammy type activity and have never had an issue.

changing IP, clearing cache and cookies etc, thats all rubbish.

just think airport/net cafes or homes with several residents and one computer.

dont be a dick on fb and you'll be fine

I think that most IM's have at least 2 FB accounts, one that's their own and other one to spam people. Yes, yes, I admit it, I'm one of them

I have only 1 account

Facebook not allowed multiple account from one IP address.They ban user. So don't try it if you don't want to get banned on fb.

Multiple accounts not a big issues.....but you have to follow guidelines as per Facebook

Why to use more than 1 account? You can build as many Fanpages as you like for your marketing purposes!

I have been logged into two to three accounts at once from different browsers. I never used a fake ip. Facebook doesn't ban you unless you Spam, or do something that raises red flags. Just have different names, use them regularly, post statuses and keep updating random images to appear normal. Works for me.

Hypothetically speaking, if I should have different accounts, I would use a vpn service to ensure FB wouldnt detect them so easiely, I would also use hootsuite for managing them without having to login and logout all the time, but this of course is just figurative speaking

Another angle.

I have a large closed group on FB. Everyday I get an average of 150 requests to join. I weed out the obvious fake,spammer/troll accounts. Most fake accounts I come across are new, created in the last few days/weeks. I see some that are "aged" but they're still easy to spot.

Accounts that are several years old with only 5 friends, no regular activity, no normal kind of images, members of hundreds of groups or zero etc. All markers that generally indicate fake accounts.

To me they are a pain in the arse. If one slips through they start to spam the group within a day of being accepted or they start trolling looking for victims.

-Paul.

Hello, if I can have people from different areas create FB accounts for me (and with their phone numbers linked to them), will that be OK later when I start logging in to those accounts from my own computer? will that violate FB policy? Thanks

yes i too have multiple accounts in facebook .Its not a big deal for having multiple accounts in facebook..we can create many accounts for our use.