@annfurnivall

Ann, If you have a business page, you can post via your business page’s persona, rather than from your personal profile’s persona. I do see your point about it being somewhat limiting, however, as pages don’t allow reciprocal “friends,” which a lot of people seem to prefer.

@annfurnivall

there are facebook guidelines against that. each person is only allowed one personal page and businesses are to be separate. i keep mine separate but share sparingly on my personal page b/c of new friends here and there.  but then again I like to keep business & pleasure separate so that my friends & clients aren’t crossing over awkwardly.

facebook guidelines are very tight and hard to follow - but if you keep in mind that it is a free resource and utilize your other business practices it will go further than you realize.  i think that when people cross/combine their business with personal settings it just goes to show that they arent respecting the resource and are lazy about doing it right – However… most people don’t even know there are rules because FB is terrible with how everything is written and navigation through their system.

@annfurnivall As others have stated, having a personal profile set up as a business name is a violation of the Facebook guidelines. I know there have been other SME Networking Club campers who have mentioned they lost their account that was set up this way and had to start from scratch because Facebook had deleted the profile.

I think it is a work in progress of Facebook deleting the profiles but if a profile is “blocked/reported” then it is flagged and reviewed by Facebook. My guess is that this is where many of the deletions (without warning) have happened.

Are you referring strictly to Facebook or were there other social media platforms where a “personal” account was set up as a business?

@annfurnivall  I agree. I’ve seen many businesses using a FB profile instead of a Page.   Many people just don’t care or they don’t really know any better. Whenever I see someone I know doing that or when a business is trying to “friend” me, I send them a message to let them know they are in violation of Facebook guidelines. I also recommend them convert their profile to a page to continue doing business. I even make a short video for them.

http://socialmediatravelers.com/how-to-convert-facebook-profile-to-a-page

Enjoy!

Paulino from https://www.facebook.com/SocialMediaTravelers