Facebook App Profile Pages Disappear By February 1 [UPDATED]

Say goodbye to Facebook application profile pages, as page managers are seeing notifications stating that they will be removed by February 1.

Say goodbye to Facebook application profile pages, as page managers are seeing notifications stating that they will be removed by February.

Page managers are seeing the banner pictured above, with the heading, “Removing App Profile Pages,” and the notification:

By February1, 2012, we are removing app profile pages. You can migrate likes and the vanity URL of this page to an existing Facebook page with the same name and product/app category.

The social network’s move comes six months after its announcement that its app directory would be phased out, which had actually been in the works a while before the announcement.

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