How to go from the personal Facebook profile on the professional page

If for some reason you decide to change your personal profile on the Facebook-professional, be sure to read this article Anna Karaulova, Director of the Agency for Development of Internet advertising i-Media. From it you will learn the ins and outs of this simple, at first glance, the process.

Anna Karaulova

Development director of i-Media advertising agency. An expert in the field of creation and analysis of complex advertising campaigns online. He conducts seminars at the Higher School of Economics, RMA and "Netologii".

In November 2015, I destroyed your profile to Facebook. The decision was made consciously. I did not plan to sever relations with your favorite social network. The purpose was different.

I registered on Facebook in March 2011. It was a time when everything was done, and that recorded within Facebook. My profile quickly scored the first thousand friends.

Inquiries came every day. First, before the confirmation, I tried to watch what they write their authors. Then I started taking all the requests that I've heard. When my profile scored 2500 friends Ribbon has grown to unprecedented dimensions. I wondered: who are these strangers who write posts that I see? In order to somehow unload the tape, I stopped to take in friends of strangers. The situation is not changed: the tape remains difficult to read, questions continued to come.

When the account limit (approx. 5000 Friends) has been made, I could not add people I knew in reality. It had to be removed periodically queries to "free up some space." It took a while, but it helps for a short time.

I wanted to preserve their strength and energy, to stop thinking about the limit on the number of friends, but also get to read the tape, which would be unknown to me people were missing.

Facebook makes it possible to move from amateur to professional communication method, and I have decided to turn your personal profile page on Facebook. It's enough to go to the link provided in the section help, And click "Start."

In no case do not do it, unless you want to turn your profile page!

I must say that I have achieved the desired result is not immediately and not without problems. I spent three months on the Facebook setting and conversation support. Unfortunately, the help sections and forums does not describe all the details and challenges that I have faced. Let's fill this gap.

Tip 1. Realize what result you get

As a result of the translation, you will gain:

1. New page without content, which will be signed by all of your buddylist.
2. Clean profile without content, friends and relationships.

All publications will be removed from Facebook, that you have done before: go away your notes and comments will be deleted mark on the photographs.

After conversion, you will have additional difficulties in using the system. About these forums also warn:

• In order to publish something, you will need to move from the personal account into the account page (I do not always think about it). If you do not, your publication will get to the main page does not strip, and a list of publications visitors.

• We need to promote most of its records: Facebook lowers the visibility of information pages in the tape users. Advertising costs will increase.
• Will have to explain to people, send your request to add to friends in your new profile, why you do not agree. Some of them are wrong, in RuNet refusal to add a friend on a social network is equivalent to a denial of communion.

Before you continue with this advice, consider again the pros and cons.

Tip 2. Accept all requests to add as friend

Before converting my old Profile limit to add as friend was exhausted. In this case, the number of friends is about 2 700 people. The remaining values ​​were proposals that I did not approve. A change of all of them have been canceled. I lost half a page audience. It is not critical, but significantly: this loss is restored for a long time.

Do not repeat my mistakes. Confirm all applications to add to friends to the profile conversion.

Tip 3. Download information from Facebook

In order not to lose the data permanently, it is necessary in advance to make an archive of your records. The forums write that Facebook makes it possible to download this information to your profile, but I have this opportunity in the interface not found.

Actions for download profile data: go to the general account settings, find the link below, click on it.

Tip 4. Turn off notifications

Facebook allows you to configure the notification e-mail when you interesting in a group or a person's profile will be content, you will receive an email. If you use this function, disable it to transfer the profile to a page (so you save yourself from having to watch uninteresting letters).

Unfortunately, the trip can be done centrally (yet). You need to follow the links contained in Facebook messages.

Tip 5. Remove phone number

The phone number can be connected to Facebook only once. If you delete the mobile phone from the old profile, you can not connect it to the new profile. So you will not be able to configure a two-step authentication, and use mobile chat.

The situation can be corrected by contacting Facebook Support, but... Customer Service is responsible for a long time. Why solve the problem if you can not create it simply?

Tip 6. In advance, create a new personal profile

The new page must be created. Facebook will ask you to specify a profile which will have priority rights. It is better to create the profile in advance.

Tip 7. Keep control of your groups

If you are the creator or administrator groups, pre-activate your new profile in the number of users with elevated privileges. All rights old profile after the conversion will be canceled.

Tip 8. Make a list of people and groups, the publication that you want to keep reading

In my belt not only personal acquaintances, but also the author, the publication of which is interesting to me to read. Unfortunately, it turned out that often I do not even remember their names. Content The content of recall, and the names - not.

To save the information field, it is necessary to fix in advance the names of the groups of interest to you and authors. Then you will find them, but it will take time and effort.

Tip 9. Consider the content of the first post in the new profile

To restore the circle of friends, you will have to send requests. Think about all of your content and the content of the first post in your profile. Your friends will feel baffled when they receive a second request to add to friends. Easier to just explain what happened.

Is the game worth the candle? Yes, if you have reached the limit on the number of friends you have overloaded news feed and you get 10-15 requests to add as friend daily. All these problems can be solved with a single click.