Thursday Tutorials: Now It's Easier to Select How You Like/Comment on Posts on Facebook

There was a recent change to many Facebook Pages.  If you don't have the change yet, you will soon.  This change is actually a good thing - it makes it easier for you to like and post as yourself instead of your page on posts on your page.

On every post now, you have a drop down to chose whether you like/comment as the page you're on, as yourself, or as one of your other pages.

Here's an example:

As you can see, on the right of the Like, Comment, Share line is a picture with an arrow.  When you click on the arrow you will get a list of pages/yourself to chose from.  Your personal profile is at the top of the list, the page you're on is automatically checked and other pages are below that and you may have to scroll to select them all.  The choice menu looks like this:

Simply select your profile if you want to like/comment/share as yourself before you post and you're set. You can also use this to easily comment as one of your pages if you chose to do so.

I like simplicity and this has definitely been simplified.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday Tutorials: How to Change From Using Facebook as Your Page to Your Profile

This tutorial is a fairly easy one, but it's something that you have to remember to do each time you post as your page and to use it to switch back to your page before you post or you'll be deleting posts you make as yourself instead of your page.

I'll be using my Social Media Marketing: Hints and Tips Page for the screenshots.

First, click on your page as if you were going to read notifications, create a post or do something else with your page.

At the very top of the screen you will see an area in the middle that says "You are posting as: NAME OF PAGE HERE - Change to Your Name Here", as seen below.

The part that says "Change to Your Name" is a hot link.  Click on it.

The page should change to something similar to the screenshot below (just with your appropriate page name and your name there).

It's that simple.

Now you can scroll down and like posts you have made on your page as yourself.  Or comment on it as yourself, or share it to your wall easier as yourself!

Note:  You have to go to your page and change it because even if you see your pages walls on your wall and you click like, it will like the post as your page name, not yours.

Sharing, commenting and liking as yourself increases engagement on your page.  Not to mention some of your friends who many not have liked your page yet may see the post and like the page or post.

To change back to posting as your page, just click on the Change to Page NAME area and it will switch back.  Easy peasy.

Encourage your page admins and managers to do the same thing.  The more individual engagement and likes, the better!

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.