Have You Noticed The Very Small Yet Useful Recent Facebook Update?

Sharing, liking and commenting as yourself (from your personal profile) on your business pages’ posts have never been possible on Facebook – until now.

Facebook now gives you the option to perform an action on one of your pages’ posts from another page or as you (from your personal profile).

Here’s an example: In order to ‘Like’ the post below on the Carvill Creative Facebook page from a personal profile –  you need to log in to Facebook as yourself and then search for the Carvill Creative page either in search or using the search bar. Once you’re on the page, you will then notice that each post now has a drop down arrow in the bottom right hand corner – this gives you the option to change who you want ‘Like’ and comment as.

In order to like the page as yourself (from your personal profile), you need to switch the account – in order to do this you need to click on the dropdown arrow and it gives you the option of what profile or company page you want to use to perform an action on this post (see below).

Throughout the years, Facebook has made a number of changes to the newsfeed. The status updates that now appear in your newsfeeds are influenced by personal connections and activity on Facebook – this is usually the top 10-12% of your Facebook friends or pages that you interact with. The number of likes and comments received by a post will also influence its position in the newsfeed.

Therefore, this new feature will be particularly useful for increasing the number of people seeing your posts on your company page. By clicking ‘Like’ on your own company posts and updates via your personal profile, you will be exposing that post to friends who have not yet liked your company page as well as improving the posts’ ranking in the newsfeed.

This feature is great if you are hosting a competition or wanting to get the word out about a new product or service.