How to convert Facebook profiles to Facebook pages.

How to convert Facebook profiles to Facebook pages.
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The only way to grow a larger audience than 5000 friends on Facebook is by converting your Facebook profiles to Facebook pages. There are times you want to add some to your Facebook friend only to see a warning dialogue pop up saying “the person has reached maximum friends” so simply you cannot them. It nags because you might even know that person in real life, maybe your new coworker, a new classmate, or a new friend.

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You might even be pushed to un-friending a few people just to create space for this new buddy. The question is, why do you lose others if you can retain both? The answer is converting your Facebook profiles to Facebook pages. Converting Facebook profiles to Facebook pages shall create a Facebook page that is based on your profile, however, you can opt for a change of name if you are intending to create a business page that doesn’t have anything to do with your personal profile.

Note that after converting, you will have two things. Your Facebook profile and a Facebook page, converting to a Facebook page doesn’t totally erase your profile but just makes a duplicate of it in form of a Facebook page.

This idea is being used by celebrities where all his/her friends are converted into likes on the newly converted page. I will take you through a step-by-step guide which you will follow in order to convert all your Facebook profiles to Facebook pages. They are simple steps anyone can follow and do on his own, just keep reading and discover something new today.

Contents

What you must expect after conversion from Facebook Profile to Facebook page

         You’ll have both a profile and a Page

         Your profile picture and cover photo will be transferred to the Page, and the name on your profile will become the Page’s name.

         Your friends, followers, and pending friend requests are automatically made Page’s followers and likes.

         You can choose which photos and videos to copy over from your profile; however, views and other metrics can’t be transferred to the Page.

         If you’re converting a verified profile, please note that your verified badge will be removed from your profile, and you’ll need to re-submit your new Page for verification.

         You can preview all changes before publishing your new Page.

         When you’ve finished setting up your new Page, you will be prompted to check your privacy settings on your profile to make sure you’re sharing what you want to share.

Convert Facebook profiles to Facebook pages

1.       Go to Create a Facebook Page Based on Your Profile.

2.       Click Get Started and follow the on-screen instructions that will be displayed to you

3.       Review your choices

4.       View the “Publish Page when done” setting turn this setting “off” if you do not want your Page to publish automatically once converted

5.       Check your privacy settings

6.       Publish and have fun with your new Facebook Page

What Happens to your Friends after conversion?

         Immediately after publishing the page, your, friends, followers, and friend requests will get notified that you’ve created a new Page.

         The profile followers you choose will automatically follow the new Page and will be removed from following your profile.

         Friends and pending friend requests you select will automatically like and follow the new Page, and won’t be removed from your profile.

How to edit your new Page’s category

In case you made a mistake in the page’s category while automatically creating it, no worries. You still have a chance of editing it at any stage and anytime, feel free please and follow the below steps.

1.       Click About on the left side of your Page.

2.       Click Edit next to Category.

3.       Type in up to 3 categories and select an option from the drop-down list that appears.

4.       Click Save.

Editor Update: 24th April 2022

Migrate Facebook Profile to Page Automatically Feature is no longer available and unlikely to return.

For now, you can no longer count on being able to convert your profile to a page automatically and getting all your friends and content moved to your page.

Without this feature though, it’s still possible to migrate your Facebook profile to a page. There’s just no automatic way to carry all your likes and followers to the new page.

Profile migration now has to happen manually, which means you still have at least an option.

To migrate your Facebook profile to a page the new way, you’ll need to do the following:-

  1. Create a Facebook page the usual way
  2. Make sure the name and other details match what you intend the page to be used for.
  3. Invite all your profile account friends to like or follow you.

Read this to learn how to create a Facebook the normal way.