How to Convert your FaceBook Profile to FaceBook Page

If you’ve had a semi-public Facebook profile for a while now, and you’re thinking about turning it into a page, you may be wondering what will happen. Let’s go through the important changes that take place when you migrate.

What Happens When You Convert A Profile?

Here are the essential points to note about a Profile-To-Page conversion:

• All of your friends and followers will be migrated to fans of your new Facebook page.
• Your username will become the username for your page (so all your links to your profile will point to the new Facebook Page).
• Your name will become the Page’s name.
• Your profile picture will become your page’s picture.
• Your new page won’t show up in your follower’s interest lists.
• You won’t be able to see personal messages from your old profile.
• The updates and photos from your profile will not transfer to the page.
• You will no longer be in any of the groups you’ve joined.

If you don’t want any of these points to happen, perhaps just create a new page and tell your followers about it. Better safe than sorry!

Steps To Take Before Converting To A Page

Before you convert your profile, be sure to follow these steps:

• Back up your personal messages, updates, photos and any other personal data using Facebook’s backup tool.
• Change your profile name and address (both for privacy and to match your business needs).
• Choose new group admins and page admins for any groups and pages you manage.
• Start the profile migration process.

If you have made a huge mistake in converting, the process can be reversed manually by Facebook. However, as it’s against the TOS to use a personal page for a business, they won’t reverse any Pages that look to be promoting a business. Be warned!

If you already have a Facebook Page as well as your profile that you’re migrating, you can then merge them together, as long as you are an admin of both pages and they are clearly for the same business. This means the names and addresses need to match. It will merge the Page with fewer likes into the Page with more likes, and photos and usernames will be lost in the process. Make sure you prepare for this!

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About TALIT MAHMOOD

Hello Friends, I am Talit Mahmood a 18 year Teenage Web Designer from Lahore, Pakistan. I’m a Web Designer, Web Developer, Blogger | Blogging expert | SEO expert and Software/Computer Engineer.

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