Facebook Profile Converter Lets You Turn Profiles Into Pages

Facebook has come up with a clever, convenient way to help users convert non-personal profiles into business pages without losing the social presence they've established.

A Facebook business account offers special features for Page administrators to better connect with fans and customers and to manage a business's social ads. Facebook also blocks business accounts from viewing fans' personal profiles and content and restricts businesses from friending personal accounts.

A personal profile created for your business, band, brand, organization, cause or product is a violation of the social network's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, and Facebook could remove all the content and connections you've built.

When you convert your account, your friends will migrate with your profile and will become "fans" on your new business page. Your profile picture will also migrate, but all other content (photo albums, wall posts, notes and more) will be lost. Inside Facebook recommends that you use the Download Your Information tool before converting your account. If your profile has more than 100 friends, you'll have to choose a new name for your Page. Your login email and password will remain the same.

Facebook has created a profile migration portal to help users make the switch. A user can assign a new Page to a category (local or place; company, organization or institution; brand or product; artist, band or public figure; entertainment; cause or community) that will best define the Page's content and audience.

Facebook also has a Help Page to guide users through the process of converting personal accounts to business accounts.

Comments

[arcanepsyche]

01:01 PM on 04/02/2011

For those thinking it's gone. As of last night, it was back up and running again.

[Randy Steel]

03:27 PM on 04/01/2011

I can not get this to work. Very simply clicked on the link to get to the migrate page, clicked public figure and following instructions and page created fine, but, no profile pic carried over, no friends converted to fans, no change in profile page??? Really would like to get this done. Anyone got ideas for me? Thanks.

[Randy Steel]

05:54 PM on 04/01/2011

According to Mashable, FB has already disabled this feature.

[akstout18]

11:53 AM on 04/01/2011

Anyone notice that the migrate link no longer works? It simply just takes you to the page to create a new page with no option to convert. Has anyone heard what is going on? I hope it is just temporarily down and not going to be taken away as an option.

[General Public]

10:06 PM on 03/31/2011

Oh, so now all those businesses that friended me will not have personal profiles but have pages I'm a "fan" of instead? Remind me to unfan all of them... I didn't fan them or even friend them, they friended me and all I did was accept their friend requests. Maybe I shouldn't have done that... I can still unfriend them, I guess...

[Donna Jane Pluta]

03:45 PM on 03/31/2011

Question is, if you've already created a separate page, can you mesh your profile page and your existing page without losing the current page info?

[akstout18]

11:50 AM on 04/01/2011

Unfortunately not. If you already have a well established page, best practice is to try to get "friends" of the profile to switch over. If you have more "friends" and engagement on your profile than you do your existing page - I would think you'd want to convert your profile to a page and then tell the people on the first page that you have a new page then close the old one.

[TechShali]

03:00 PM on 03/31/2011

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[TechShali]

03:38 PM on 03/31/2011

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