Facebook Profiles Can Now Convert Into Pages

You can now convert a personal profile into a business pages, but not vice versa.

You can now convert a personal profile into a business page.

The social network never formally announced this new capability but Facebook’s help center explains how to convert a profile to a page.

In fact, seven different help entries describe this process, making it look like this has been an option all along when in fact it’s news to us — as it was for blogger Josh Constine.

Converting a profile into a page retains all of one’s friends as fans, but all other information gets lost in the process if a user doesn’t first copy and save all of their personal information onto their computer.

And once you convert your profile into a page, there’s no way to reverse the process.

Facebook’s help center describes how to download the contents of one’s profile in ample detail.

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