# Facebook business page?!?!?!?!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-business-page/618613>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 12, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-business-page/618613 "2012-04-12T22:25:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Elvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de053/32.png) [@Elvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvive)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-business-page/618613/1 "2012-04-12T22:25:49Z")

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Hi -

I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with Facebook business page setting up/ options?

Basically, I created a Facebook business page for my friend’s company, uploaded some pics, got few friends to “like” it and etc., but then I realized that you can’t do much with it. It doesn’t show up in search results, you can’t add/ invite people, “like” other pages, search for other pages and etc. Even if you get lot of people to “like” it, it still means nothing since you cant “like” other business pages or leave comments. Apparently the way to go about it so to turn one’s personal Facebook profile into a Facebook business page. I never had Facebook profile and my friend who owns the company has one, but he uses his own username/ email and password to log on to it. Facebook business page that I created for him has different username/ password? There are also some rules imposed by Facebook about not operating private profile and business page at the same time, since they can then shut it down.

Can anyone share some insights on this, please? Thanks

Elvive

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**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-business-page/618613/2 "2012-04-12T22:41:43Z")

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You do can ‘like’ other pages and do much of the ordinary interactions in the name of the business page - if you are an administrator of the page choose “Use Facebook as _businesspagename_” from the menu on the top right, and your further interactions are in the name of _businesspagename_ rather than in the name of _Elvive_

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**Author:** ![Elvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de053/32.png) [@Elvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvive)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-business-page/618613/3 "2012-04-13T06:45:38Z")

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Hi,

Thanks. But I dont have a private profile and so when I log onto Facebook business page I am the administrator and already using it as business page. Still, can’t find “like” option when I go to other pages, I can only add them as my favorites.

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-business-page/618613/4 "2012-04-13T06:49:36Z")

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Can you create a personal account just for the purposes of this, then? You don’t have to friend anyone else on that personal account.

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**Author:** ![ExcitedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-business-page/618613/5 "2012-04-13T15:24:32Z")

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From[Facebook TOS](http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms):

> [@](#):
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> You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).

So the main(only?) reason to use a business account, is to avoid account cancellation.