Table of Contents
- Create a New Post on a Facebook Company Page as Yourself (Desktop)
- Comment on an Existing Facebook Company Page Post as Yourself (Desktop)
- Comment on a Visitor’s Post on a Facebook Company Page as Yourself (Desktop)
- Create a New Post on a Facebook Company Page as Yourself (iPhone)
- Comment on an Existing Facebook Company Page Post as Yourself (iPhone)
We provide social media marketing services for a few clients in the Atlanta area, and a client asked me how to do this. I didn’t know how to do it by memory, so I searched Google for the answer. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a blog post that showed how to do it, so I learned how to do it myself. I’ll show you how to comment as yourself personally and as the Facebook company page that you are managing, and I’ll show you how to do this from a desktop computer and from a mobile phone.
When I say “Facebook company page”, I am referring to any Facebook company page in which you have an admin role. When I say “yourself”, I mean your personal Facebook profile. Commenting on your Facebook company page as yourself does not require going into your settings or switching back and forth between your company page and personal profile.
Create a New Post on a Facebook Company Page as Yourself from a Desktop Computer
Switching back and forth between identities when starting a new comment on a Facebook company that you manage
To start a new post as yourself on your Facebook company page from a desktop computer, you will need to:
- Start a new comment in the section below your company page’s cover photo and the call-to-action button.
- Click on the small logo that appears on the top right of the new comment section. It will have a dropdown arrow next to it.
- Select your personal profile. You’ll notice that thumbnail image by the new post will change to the profile that you selected.
- Type your post.
- Publish your post.
- To switch back to posting as your company, follow steps 1-5 except you would choose your company profile.
What if you don’t see your profile when creating a new post? If you see something like the screenshot below where there is no other profile except for your business profile, then click the left arrow beside your company name.
Doing this should reveal your personal profile on the top and the rest of the companies that you manage below that:
This works for creating new posts, commenting on a company page’s existing, and commenting on visitors’ posts to your company page.
Comment on a Facebook Company Page’s Existing Post as Yourself from a Desktop Computer
Switching back and forth between identities when commenting on an existing Facebook company page’s post
To comment on a previous post on a Facebook company page as yourself from a desktop computer, you will need to:
- Click on the small logo that appears right below your Facebook company page’s post. It is on the same line as the Like, Comment, and Share buttons and will have a dropdown arrow next to it.
- Select yourself. You’ll notice that thumbnail image by the new comment will change to the profile that you selected.
- Type your comment.
- Hit enter to publish your comment.
- To switch back to posting as your company, follow steps 1-4 except you would choose your company.
Comment as Yourself on a Visitor’s Post on a Facebook Company Page from a Desktop Computer
If a visitor posts on your Facebook company page, you can comment as yourself by following these steps:
1. Click the Posts sidebar menu item on the left sidebar.
2. Click the Visitor Posts link on the right sidebar.
3. Find the post that you want to edit, click the small profile pic with the down arrow, and select your personal profile (if it hasn’t been done already).
4. Type your post, click enter, and see your personal profile comment.
Create a New Post on a Facebook Company Page as Yourself from an iPhone
Steps on how to post on Facebook company page as yourself on an iPhone. At the time of this update, the Android version of the Facebook app doesn’t allow you to comment as yourself.
Below is an explanation of the steps shown in the above image:
- Tap the Publish button. You must tap the Publish button. There is a section to create a new post below this the Publish button, but you can’t switch identities there.`
- Tap the small dropdown arrow right next to your Facebook company page name.
- Tap your personal profile image.
- When you see your Facebook company page’s profile image change to your Facebook personal profile image, you’re now posting as yourself.
Comment on a Facebook Company Page’s Previous Post as Yourself from an iPhone
Steps on how to comment on your Facebook company page’s previous post as yourself
Below is an explanation of the steps shown in the above image:
- Tap your company page’s profile image with the dropdown arrow.
- Tap your personal profile image.
- You’ll see that the small thumbnail image changes from your Facebook company profile image to your personal Facebook profile image. When you see that the profile image has changed, tap Comment.
- Type your comment and tap the publish button.
Here’s a dialogue between me and Mr. Technique below:
Did this post help you? Have you found a different way to comment personally on your Facebook company page? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for reading.
Facebook Android user here. No options to change to my
Personal profile for commenting as you describe!
Thank you! Very helpful.
The tiny profile image does not seem to exist in the mobile app. Can be done in Chrome on mobile, but not in the app. At least not on Android.
Chuck, thanks for pointing that out. I opened the Android version on my Chromebook to check myself. I just updated the blog post.
Mysteriously, the dropdown to change profiles on my profile only shows 1 page option. That has happened since I activated the Business Manager. Do you have any idea of what’s happening?
Yes. When you add a page to the Facebook Business Manager, that page is removed out of your personal Facebook account. If you can, you will need to remove the page from the Facebook Business Manager. If you only have one page on the Facebook Business Manager, you won’t be able to remove it. This blog post from Agora Pulse helped me with that.
Cibele, if you only have one Facebook company page in your Business Manager account, you can try to delete your business to bring it back to your personal account, but I have had any luck. You would go to this settings link, then click on the Business Info on the left side. You’ll see a button that says “Permenantly Delete Business”. I wasn’t able to do it though. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
Cibele, do you see a left arrow by your company profile? If so, perhaps clicking it could help. Click here for more info on how to do that.
Thanks for this thorough article. Unfortunately, when I click on the left arrow, it only shows my page and not my personal profile. I am one of several “editors” on the page, not the admin, and I want to be able to like posts as myself. I can’t figure out how to do that. I’ve also searched the Facebook help section, and nothing is working. Thoughts?
I figured it out! On my page, I went to Settings and then clicked Page Attribution in the left sidebar. There I had the option to post as either the page or myself. I chose myself and when I went back to the page, I could then like and comment as myself. It looks like I can’t create a new post as myself, but that’s OK. I want to write posts as my page, but then react to posts (especially posts written by other editors) as myself. This has been driving me nuts, and I’m so glad it was a simple fix! 🙂
Jenny…have you figured out how to change the Page Attribution on the mobile app? I can like posts as myself on the page that I’m an Admin as long as I’m using the desktop version of Facebook. Once I switch to the mobile app I am again reacting to posts and comments as my page and not my personal profile. I have an Android (Samsung Galaxy 8+). If anyone has figured this out for the mobile app…I’d love to hear how.
Jenny and Jill, thanks for commenting.
Jenny, I was able to create a post or comment on an existing post as myself on a desktop computer regardless of what I chose in the Post Attribution section. The only difference was if I selected the post as myself option, the post would be attributed to my personal profile by default.
Jill, on my iPhone, regardless of whether I chose to post as myself or the company page that I’m managing, the post would be attributed to the company page by default. I was able to attribute posts to myself though. Just to clear things up, on my iPhone, I am using the Facebook app and not the Facebook Pages app when I’m posting or commenting as myself.
I can’t do this on the iPhone app.
When I go to publish, it is only showing my page details and not the profile!
Does this apply to Android app? I’ve been searching and searching.
Rob, the option is there. You have to tap the down arrow by your business name.
Charlotte, this is just for the iPhone app.
Hello
Please tell me how to post on my page as my page
I dont want to post on my page as me
This used to be available but now when I switch, I can’t post at all
Please help
Hi Tom. I’m an admin for our nonprofit page and would like to add a photo to one of the comments that another admin posted as myself, not the page, but when I click on the dropdown and select my personal profile, the camera icon for posting a photo disappears. Do you have any advice? Thanks in advance.
Kurt, are you using the Facebook iPhone app? If so, I was able to reproduce the error once. I either cancelled the post or reselected my company page, and I was able to see the camera icon. I wasn’t able to reproduce the error again. Try toggling back and forth between your personal and company profile. If that doesn’t work, you could try canceling and restarting the post. Here’s a screenshot showing the camera icon when I’m posting with my personal profile on my company page:
If that doesn’t work, you could just post from your personal profile on a desktop computer. The Photo/Video option never disappears there.
Hi, Tom. Sorry, I should have been more clear…this is through the Facebook website on my laptop, not the iPhone app. I flipped back and forth with the profile, but no luck.
Kurt, on the Facebook website on my desktop, there is no camera icon. Here’s a screenshot:
I’m using Chrome on a MacBook. What browser are you using? And can you provide a screenshot of your post?
I’m not sure why you are having problems. Can you go into more detail?
when i try to click on my personal icon, it doesn’t change over on the mobile version. is there something i need to fix in settings?
is the cellular version problematic I tried but can’t ??
I haven’t had a problem with it. I use the Facebook app not the Facebook Page app. Also, I’m using an iPhone.
on Desktop, when I try to switch to my personal account, it appears as an option, but if I select it – it just stays on my Page account. Have you seen this before?
I cannot comment as myself on pages my business page has liked. I can comment as myself on mobile but not on desktop. Been like this for a long while. I have even unliked the page,
Hi Tom, in my android phone does not appear the small thumbnail image for change to my page to my profile
May 2019:
Using Samsung mobile and cannot figure out if there is an option for us other than bumping into a browser on phone. (I am well versed in desktop usage) completely frustrating I can’t get this option to work. However, Groups has an easy switch function.
Advise?
Justis and Edgar, I don’t have an Android phone, so I can’t reproduce the issue. I do have a Chromebook though. I’ll let you know if I find a solution. Jim and Cape Cod Girl, I haven’t experienced your issue.
When I’m on a FB business page, I am able to comment under my personal account. The problem is when I go to reply to people who have replied to my comments. That reply suddenly changes to a reply from my business page account. Can you tell me how to fix this?
The icon with the user-selection dropdown just isn’t there
I was battling with this too. Here’s what works for me: I have an iPhone with the Facebook ‘Pages’ app installed for the companies I am Page Admin of (Orange Flag icon) I also have the normal Facebook app on my phone (White f on blue background)
When I am commenting as the company I am posting for I use the Pages/Orange Flag App.
When I want to comment as myself on a company page, I access via my personal FB app. I type the company name in the search bar, it comes up, I go to the post and comment as myself .
When trying to comment as myself on a community page there’s actually anothe Page I am the Administrator of in the comment field. HELP!