{"id":92,"date":"2012-03-30T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-05-07T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:22:27","slug":"facebook-differences-between-a-personal-profile-and-a-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/facebook-differences-between-a-personal-profile-and-a-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook – differences between a personal profile and a page"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few notes giving details of the differences between a personal profile and a page.<\/p>\n

Firstly, looking at Facebook’s terms and conditions:<\/h2>\n

Facebook does not allow you to share your account login details. So a personal profile cannot be administered\/updated by anyone else.
\nA page can have several admins.<\/p>\n

Facebook states: “Maintaining a personal account for anything other than an individual person is a violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. If you don\u2019t convert your noncompliant account to a Page, you risk permanently losing access to the account and all of its content.<\/em>” http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/?faq=201994686510247#Why-should-I-convert-my-personal-account-to-a-Facebook-Page?<\/a><\/p>\n

So basically, if you are an individual, whether that is just plane old John Smith or John Smith Football Coach, you could use a personal account. But whatever type of company, group or organisation you are, if there is more than one of you, you need a page.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And then looking at the differences in functionality between a personal profile and a page:<\/h2>\n

As I’m sure you know, people request to be a ‘friend’ with a personal profile, and people ‘like’ a page. As a page admin, there is nothing for you to do when someone ‘likes’ you page unlike a personal profile where you have to acknowledge the ‘friend request’.<\/p>\n

A personal profile can send a direct personal message to an individual.
\nA Page cannot directly contact an individual unless it is replying to a private message.<\/p>\n

Status messages are similar between a personal profile and a page.<\/p>\n

Someone who is not a friend of a personal profile cannot by default see all the info of that account. And if someone is not logged in to facebook or is not a member of facebook they won’t be able to see any information for a personal profile, they will get a message: This content is currently unavailable.
\n\"Info<\/a><\/p>\n

Someone who has not ‘liked’ your page (or even hasn’t got a facebook account) can still see the info on a facebook page.
\n\"Facebook<\/a>
\nSomething you get with a page which you don’t with a personal profile is ‘insights<\/strong>‘.
\nThis will give you an insight into peoples activity on your page. http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/pages\/insights<\/a><\/p>\n

To edit\/update a page:<\/h2>\n

You will start being logged in to your personal account.
\nSelect the drop down menu against the ‘home’ button.
\nThere you will see a list of pages you are an admin for. Select ‘use facebook as {your page}’.
\n\"Edit<\/a><\/p>\n

Now you can update the page’s status, upload photos to the page, etc.<\/p>\n

To switch back to your personal account, select the drop down menu against the ‘home’ button again.
\nSelect ‘use facebook as {your account}’.
\n\"Back<\/a><\/p>\n

Converting your personal account to a page:<\/h2>\n

Facebook will let you convert your personal profile into a page and all the people who are ‘friends’ will be set to ‘likes’ for your new page.<\/p>\n

But note not all information will be transferred across. Some of this will have to be transferred manually.<\/p>\n

You can find out more here: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/?faq=116067818477568#How-do-I-convert-my-personal-account-to-a-Facebook-Page?<\/a>
\nThis might also be useful info: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/?faq=159793740753990#I%27ve-converted-my-personal-account-to-a-Page.-What-should-I-do-next?<\/a><\/p>\n

What about Groups?<\/h2>\n

In a future post I will discuss the difference between a facebook page and a facebook group.<\/p>\n

I hope this is useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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