Multiple Facebook Pages (8 posts)

  • This question keeps coming up and may have been asked before. How can I help a client (not for profit educational institution) who over the last few years has discovered that several former employees, board members and even students have opened Facebook pages in their name and are linked to their personal or business sites? We’ve asked the latest to take down the site and they agreed, but we keep discovering more out there! 

  • @judithgotwald one simple, easy (and necessary!) action is to merge all these pages with the original page and thus create unique, original and authenticate page of the organization. You can ask all the existing, unofficial page owners to enter basic page information such as address, name, contact details same as they are on the official page, and request all these page owners to make you admin to their page. (of course you need to like these pages so that they can grant you admin rights) once you’re the admin to these pages, you’ll need to merge one by one all pages to your original page. REMEMBER: page with lesser/fewer likes will get merged into page with more/higher likes. So make sure your official page has more likes than unofficial pages.
    I did this with my own charity hospital pages successfully in past and also did it for my many clients. Check out for sample here: Facebook.com/HospitalForThePoorLet me know if you want any further help re. this.

  • @moinshaikh

    Thanks. Sounds a bit daunting! I may need help! I’m not sure we know who the owners of the pages are and will have to start researching it. I’ll let you know how it goes. JG

  • @judithgotwald sure! One way to get to owners is : Like the page as and when you find in search, then post on their page not as your profile but as your page(this way they will get notified that admin of official page i.e. you has posted on their unofficial page. Ask them in the post to contact you on official page so that you can complete process. Leave your profile link, page link and admin name for contact purpose. And ask them to leave a message to you with their admin’s name and page link. Once you have gotta page link and admin name, you can like that page, ask for admin rights to the concerned admin and then you can follow the process as i mentioned in first reply. 

    If any help needed, feel free to contact me, i will glad to help a charity organization :) Because i know what a charity is and how a charity is run :) All the best!

  • btw can you send me official page link and name please.@judithgotwald

  • @moinshaikh

    The Institution is Berean Institutea Philadelphia Barber School.

    the website is http://www.bereaninstitutephila.com

    We want to link Facebook to this page, but this kid is sitting in an accounting office across town running his own Facebook site as Berean.

    I am negotiating with him to take it down. If he doesn’t take it down on his own by the end of next week, I’ll give your method a try.

    The other competing site is Tri-City Barber School in Philadelphia. This site does not seem to be active and Facebook is looking for the owner. I, as marketing director of Berean, hesitate to claim ownership as long as this other guy is operating his own Berean Site. (Tri City closed more than a year ago and became Berean. There may be other Tri-City pages too. I’m looking for them.

    Thank you for your interest and helpful suggestions. I get back to you in a week or so to let you know how it is going.

  • The other thing you may have to try @judithgotwald is to report intellectual property infringement.  You can do that here:  http://www.facebook.com/help/intellectual_property

    Great suggestions,  @moinshaikh!

  • Thanks @andrea-vahl Glad to help you @judithgotwald, hope your problem is solved asap.Thanks!


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