# Facebook question: Comments on your own page **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 17, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562 "2010-12-17T22:01:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/1 "2010-12-17T22:01:06Z")
I have a Facebook page for my business. I own it, and two other people have administrative privileges as well. Whenever I write something on the business’ page, it shows as being from the business. I want to comment on some of the posts and have the comments show _my_ name rather than the business name, and I can’t figure out how to do this. I can’t find an answer to this anywhere in Facebook’s help. I hope there’s a way to do it. ---
**Author:** ![mckall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@mckall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mckall)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/2 "2010-12-17T22:03:36Z")
You’d have to comment from your personal account. There is no way to change the name of the commenter that I’m aware of. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/3 "2010-12-17T22:10:12Z")
Comment using your personal account? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/4 "2010-12-17T22:27:50Z")
If your business is Facebook “Page” and not a “person”, I don’t think you can unless you remove yourself as one of the admins. (You can always keep a separate account to admin it with). It’s a common complaint. Otherwise, just sign your name at the end. -Reply ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/5 "2010-12-17T22:40:13Z")
> [@mckall](#): > > You’d have to comment from your personal account. There is no way to change the name of the commenter that I’m aware of. I _am_ commenting from my personal account, but it shows up as being from the business because I’m an administrator of the business page (the business doesn’t have its own _account_, just its own _page_). It can get confusing when three different people are making posts on the business’ page and they all show up as being from the business. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/6 "2010-12-17T22:50:34Z")
Yep, it’s an unfortunate limitation of how Facebook pages work. I ran into the same problem with a page I help admin for the company I work for. AFAIK There’s no easy solution except for signing your post. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/7 "2010-12-17T23:04:02Z")
I am also an administrator of a Facebook page and have hit the same problem - apparently an administrator of a page cannot post on the page’s wall under his own name. The only workaround I can think of would involve another user who is also an aministrator of the page: 1. Have the other administrator revoke your administrator function 2. Post on the page’s wall - as yourself (this assumes the page’s permissions are set so non-administrators can post) 3. Have the other administrator reinstate you as administrator. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-comments-on-your-own-page/564562/8 "2010-12-18T00:52:41Z")
I am by no means a Facebook expert, but what if you made your business a Facebook group instead? Would that work better for you?