Post on Facebook as You or Your Page

If you have a business PAGE on Facebook, you probably want to keep your personal and business posts separate.

Let’s face it, your friends will soon get annoyed if you keep making sales pitches to them! And infact, using your personal profile as a business is frowned upon by Facebook. (So, beware, especially if you have over 1,000 friends; Facebook might just deactivate your profile.) Facebook was kind enough to create PAGES for this very reason. Just create a business PAGE and keep your business and personal Facebook lives separate. But there was one problem with this, in the beginning you could only post as YOU, not as your PAGE…. Thankfully, that has chanced. A while back they enabled admins of business Pages to “Use Facebook as Page”. This feature gives you the ability to post, comment or share anything within Facebook as though you were a PAGE or YOURSELF; it’s now your choice.

Why This Is A Great Benefit To You and Your Business?

The answer is ‘BRANDING‘. We can now segregate between the comments that we make as our business brand and comments that we make personally. When you comment as your PAGE, you are spreading the word about your business and driving traffic back to your Facebook Business Page.

NB. One thing to note is that only “LIKES” from personal profiles are counted in a PAGE’S LIKES. PAGES that you LIKE when you are signed in as your PAGE will not increase the LIKES of the liked PAGE.

How To Switch Between YOU and your PAGE?

1. Browse to your page;
2. Click on the at the top right corner of the screen;
3. Select the tab from the left menu;
4. Untick the box next to “Posting Preferences”;
5. Click ;
6. Click to go to your PAGE’s Profile;
7. Notice “Use Facebook as xxx”. Use this link to toggle between using the Page as yourself or as your PAGE.

See the screen dumps below and the video for step by step instructions:-