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Create a Page on Facebook, Facebook

Hide Facebook Page Likes – Start your own Facebook Page

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We’ve been writing about hiding Facebook likes for a long time. Our guides in past posts involve adjusting your privacy settings and can be quite complicated sometimes. In this post, we’re going to show you how to hide your Facebook Page likes with one single click. It works, beautifully!

TIP: We have always advocated starting another Facebook profile as the ultimate way to hide your page likes on Facebook. While this works well, it’s a pain to have to sign out of one account to then sign in to another. With the system we’re describing in this post, it takes just one mouse click to switch from your main Facebook profile page to your new ‘Facebook Page’.

1. Refer to our previous post to get the basics on starting a Facebook Page. A Facebook Page is usually started by a business or an entertainer, maybe a product or a cause, things like that. If you have liked a music star’s page before, then you know what a Facebook Page is. The cool part is that anyone can start a Facebook page. You don’t have to be a rock star.

2. There should be a link on the lower left side of your non-timeline Facebook page with the words Create a page. Click that to get to the next stage in this or look for the words Like Pages in the same location, bottom left. When you click on Like Pages, this page will come up which has a direct link to the Create a Page section. Here is what that looks like:

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Click on the green button to create a page.

 

Alternatively, here is the link:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php   Make sure you get to the page from your regular Facebook profile page. That way, your new page is linked to your Facebook profile. Switching between the two types of Facebook profiles is far simpler if it they are linked. More on that later.

3. To simplify things, it’s best to choose the Artist, Band or Public Figure when you’re choosing the type of page you want. Here’s what your faced with:

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Choosing the bottom left box means you only provide a minimum of information.

 

4. Next, choose the type of entertainer you are, we chose artist, make up a name and agree to Facebook’s terms. Like this:

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Any name works fine. No one will ever see it anyway.

 

5. Skip your way through the next section. You’re not interested in spreading the word about your new page, right?

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Skip all of these things.

 

6. Next, Facebook suggests that you like your own page. Why not? Click Like and get it over with.

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Like your page and move on.

 

7. Click your way through the next few prompts. Facebook wants you to advertise your page but, of course, you don’t want that. Once you’re past the pop-up menus and are back to your main page, look for the blue ‘admin settings’. Here is your target:

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Click on ‘admin setting’.

 

8. Once you get to the next page, look at the top for the words ‘Page Visibility’. Check the box that says ‘Unpublish page (only admins can see this page). This is it:

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Unpublish the page you just created. That way, only you can see it.

Facebook will prompt you to publish your page but ignore them. This is your very own private page.

 

9. Although you have created your new Facebook Page, you aren’t actually in it yet. You should still be in your old Facebook profile account. Click the word Facebook up on the top left to confirm that. Your name is up on the top left, correct?  Up on the top right, click the little down arrow to the right of Home. This menu will appear:

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Once the menu pops down, click on the page you just created.

 

10. Once you click on your own Facebook Page name, you are taken to that page and this menu pops up:

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Here is proof that you are not in Kansas anymore! You’re on another Facebook Page with the click of your mouse.

(We named our page Ralph Bunch for no other reason than this is the name that came to mind.)

11. At this point, you can either take the tour or simply start to like all of the pages that you wanted to hide on your main Facebook Profile. No one can access the page except you, therefore no one will be able to see any page that you like. You cannot add friends to this page, remember that. But you are still able to like photos that the other pages post, comment, you can even post things on their wall. The curious part of all of this is that whatever you do is pretty much hidden. Since no one can see your Facebook Page except you, anything you like or comments that you make are hidden. It’s as if you don’t exist.

12. When you want to go back to your main Facebook page, click up on the top right again and  choose your own name:

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Click on your name and you’re back to your normal Facebook profile.

 

That’s it, easy and quick. No need to worry about anyone seeing any of the pages you like, they’re completely hidden. As long as you make sure that no one can access your account, say on a shared computer, you’ll be fine. If you want to add friends, you do have to start a whole new Facebook profile but for simply liking pages, this system works perfectly.

 

Thanks for reading! Why not ‘like’ our very own Facebook page while you’re here. Computers Made Simple on Facebook 

 

Create a Page on Facebook, Facebook

Create a Page on Facebook

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If you have a business or you’re in a band and want to promote yourself on Facebook, use the Create a Page link on the main Facebook page to set up your business or band profile. Once you do that, you can use Facebook to increase business for yourself or awareness of your music. Here’s how you do it:

1. Sign out of Facebook if you are already signed in on your personal profile. Why? Because you may not want your public, business page associated with your personal page. It’s up to you but we think that it’s better to keep the two things separate.

2. At the bottom of the Facebook sign-in page you will see the Create a Page link. Here’s a photo of it:

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Click on the ‘Create a Page’ link.

 

3. Once you click on the link, you’ll have to decide what type of page you want. Facebook offers you six choices and you have to somehow fit your ‘hot yoga/disco/senior’s home’ business into one of them. Here’s what you see when you click on the Create a Page link:

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Click on one of the icons and the following drop-down menu will appear. 

 

4. Next, you have to figure out which group of sites your business will fit in. Good luck with that. Here are some of the choices:

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Scroll down the menu to see where your business might fit.

 

5. Next, Facebook takes you to a page where you fill in the normal email address, date of birth and so on. You also have to agree to their terms and prove that you’re not a bot by filling in the text box (captcha). This is what it looks like:

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This is very straightforward. Use your company email or get a new free account at hotmail or gmail. Again, it might be better to separate your personal email from your business to avoid spam.

 

6. After this is all finished, proceed to your profile and fill it out as you see fit. Add photos, videos, customer success stories, whatever you think will increase your business. Just remember that people are now watching you and your business. Don’t alienate your customers or fans by doing something that you will regret later. You’ve been warned!

 

Questions, comments and praise are always welcome. Thanks for reading. Oh, here is our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/ComputersMadeSimple?ref=hl