Comments on: How to Create a Facebook Page Without Connecting it to a Profile

By: Randi

Randi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:14:15 +0000

Hey Ryan,

I can be a little slow at times…I followed your instructions and made the assumption that I should not be logged in to my personal account. All seemed okay, until I went back in using the e-mail address provided in Step 6. At that time, the instructions displayed indicated I had to create a profile. So now I have a second profile.

Please help or explain what I did wrong.

Randi

By: Ryan Shell

Ryan Shell — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:07:24 +0000

Jamaaludeen, some businesses don’t want to worry with a Page being connected to a profile. Having a Page and a Profile can cause confusion in searches. Also, I think some like the idea of it being a stand-alone thing that isn’t connected to a person or email account. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Jamaaludeen Khan

Jamaaludeen Khan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:03:19 +0000

I would never use this though. It’s one of those things – in my opinion – that is possible but not useful.

Firstly, why would you want to have a Facebook Page if you don’t have a profile of yourself?

Secondly, to create the Page, you have to be *in* Facebook, so again…what’s the point of not having a personal profile.

Thirdly, if you have a personal profile, and just want to have a Page that’s independent from that profile, then that, too, does not make sense. For one reason, you can invite all your friends to the Page if it’s connected to your profile, and it’s it’s not, you can only increase your Fan count by other means.

By: Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with 'sketch')

Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with 'sketch') — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:58:09 +0000

Oh, and one more thing I just discovered today: many third-party applications (SlideShare, for instance) have to be installed on your personal profile before they can be connected to your fan page.

By: Ryan Shell

Ryan Shell — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:25:32 +0000

Laura C, the real advantage might just be that it protects a business from being connected with any one person. Circle back to Laura’s comment just above yours… it will highlight a negative of having the page connected to a profile.

Thank you for checking out the site.

By: Laura Christianson

Laura Christianson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:14:50 +0000

Ryan,

This is good news. Thanks for sharing the instructions. Now that you’ve had yours up for a few weeks, have you noticed any glitches — or advantages to setting it up this way?

By: Ryan Shell

Ryan Shell — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:58:53 +0000

Laura, I’m assuming when you say privately you’re talking about a direct message. If the page is connected to you’re profile the profile will show up as the sender – the only way around that is to not have the Page connected to the profile. This is one of those things a ton of people would have liked to have known prior to setting up a Page.

Thanks for the question.

By: laura

laura — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:48:04 +0000

Once you have a Fan Page, I have noticed that when I post on the Fan Page, it does it as the name of the business, but when I want to reply privately to a fan, it sends it as my personal profile/name. Any way around that kind of stuff?

By: Ryan Shell

Ryan Shell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:31:37 +0000

Geoff, glad I could help. Best of luck to you.

Victoria, the invite friends feature still works, but the one drawback is that the feature allows you to invite friends of your profile… which doesn’t work because you don’t have the page connected to a profile.

By: Victoria Thompson

Victoria Thompson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:19:42 +0000

Thank you for the advice. I already had a fan page for my company Green Nippers but I had to have a profile with it and found it hard to use. I’ve just created a new facebook page following your step by step guide above: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Nippers/350747690652

I have not invited any fans to join as yet, but I was just wondering if there is any where on my page where I can add/invite fans or if I can join fan pages or groups?

Thank you