One of the more useful features of Facebook is a simple tool that users can use to suggest pages to their friends. As of the past few days the feature stopped working for administrators and is no longer visible to fans of the page.
The most likely reason for this change was that page administrators were typically the only people likely to use the tool. This also prevents page administrators from encouraging fans to share their page with others.
While the tool is currently broken for admins, I have a feeling it will be resolved in the near future. There’s also a chance that Facebook will come up with alternative solutions for easily sharing your favorite pages. Ultimately I’m not sure how large of an impact this will have on page growth but it’s definitely something that admins won’t be happy about.
Did you ever use the “Suggest To Friends” feature when you visited another page? How about for Pages you administer yourself?
Update
One thing that may not have been clear: admins can still access the feature, however fans of a page cannot.
Facebook acknowledged that the Suggest to Friends button wasn't functioning properly and said it would be fixed shortly. (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=192555600756145&set=a.134905459854493.22542.134897749855264&comments)
I would guess the removal of the button is either part of the process of fixing the bug, or potentially a test. I still see the Suggest to Friends button on my fan pages (though it doesn't work at the moment).
Comment by brittanydarwell — January 21, 2011 @ 6:47 pm
Definitely removes a very useful tool for those managing a brand/celebrity fan page. Disappointing.
Comment by @dave_link — January 21, 2011 @ 6:48 pm
I used it all the time. My mission is to bring people together and removing this feature is a big disappointment.
Comment by Joanne — January 21, 2011 @ 6:49 pm
at least once/month I'd suggest my page to my "Friends". I do hope they replace or reinstate that feature!
Comment by Tim Ryan — January 21, 2011 @ 6:49 pm
I used it now and again, but found that the notification itself would generally be lost amid lots of clutter (so I'd often just cut and paste a link to the page into a mail message, or post it on the person's wall).
Comment by youngwilliamthe — January 21, 2011 @ 6:50 pm
very disappointing act by facebook
Comment by shallum — January 21, 2011 @ 6:51 pm
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1925556007...
It's a known issue. They are working on it.
Comment by zingtabs — January 21, 2011 @ 6:51 pm
You are saying that it is still working for Admins…I just tried on my page and it didnt work.
Comment by Janet Marcotte — January 21, 2011 @ 6:55 pm
I use it all the time…..bring it back please
Comment by Dawn — January 21, 2011 @ 6:56 pm
It is integral to what I do on face book regarding networking law enforcement agencies together and not only do I use the one on the fan page I run to suggest to any new friends to my personal list but I use it on all the LE department pages to suggest their pages… definitely a must have to continue doing what we are doing in Law Enforcement
Comment by Nessie — January 21, 2011 @ 7:02 pm
I use it a lot .. both for pages I like and for pages I am Admin on ….. not cool having it interoperable!!!!
Please fix soon!!!!!!!
Comment by Jeanne — January 21, 2011 @ 7:09 pm
I use this feature all the time anytime I'm on a page that I think some of my friends might like, plus to suggest my own page to new friends. So many of my friends have become fans of pages I thought were interesting and thanked me for suggesting it to them. Isn't this how networking is supposed to work?
Comment by Cindy — January 21, 2011 @ 7:11 pm
Ditto to many of the above, I use this feature all the time both as an Admin and a consumer when I come across pages that I know would be useful or relevant to friends/family. Very disappointing, my expectation is that this functionality will come back ten-fold with more robust features.
Comment by Tonia Meyer — January 21, 2011 @ 7:28 pm
My members use this all of the time. Very disappointing. – http://www.facebooktipaday.com
Comment by Robert Basil — January 21, 2011 @ 7:47 pm
Where can we be notified that it's fixed? Or just keep trying it…
Comment by Chris — January 21, 2011 @ 8:15 pm
I just tried it on my page and it is working again! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Other-Awareness-Pro...
Comment by Michael — January 21, 2011 @ 8:29 pm
I created a page this afternoon and couldn't get the "Suggest …" link to work. Now I know why. I tried it again a few minutes ago, and it worked fine.
Comment by Eddie Blick — January 21, 2011 @ 10:36 pm
Noooooooo! Does not work for me
How disappointing and frustrating, I use it all the time… I think it's going to have a large impact on all the Facebook pages.
Comment by Phil — January 22, 2011 @ 2:48 am
please fix it facebook!
it`s a import tool for myself!
Comment by Semih — January 22, 2011 @ 3:54 am
this is not good…
Comment by mayank — January 22, 2011 @ 4:42 am
Yes it does work for admin but not for fans anymore (well at least for now)
Comment by Nico — January 22, 2011 @ 6:25 am
he he, well played !
Comment by nico — January 22, 2011 @ 6:26 am
I believe facebook is working on it. is still not working, and this CAN´T be a decision, just a bug
Comment by jafeth mariani — January 22, 2011 @ 7:06 am
That feature is really helpful to admins. Since this feature can help spread pages viral to everyone.
Comment by francis — January 22, 2011 @ 7:38 am
I'm a page admin, and I used the suggest tool quite often! What will I do without it?
Comment by Liz — January 22, 2011 @ 8:11 am
FB is in need to sell his ADS so he stop people grow his pages alone.
This can be something that STOP a lot of investors to use the platform itself.
After seen the new Page version where u see only numbers and noothing more than that i think this is part of the game.
But in the new version i remember that the button to share the page was there.
Comment by Alexander — January 22, 2011 @ 9:13 am
I have 3 business pages and I used this feature quite often. It would have been more professional if FB would have given us a "heads up" concerning this change and what we could expect in exchange. The lack of communication is also quite unprofessional.
Comment by Aleeah — January 22, 2011 @ 12:07 pm
My fans use it all the time too… How ridiculous is this???
Comment by Bette — January 22, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
This is not good news to me. I currently "Like" maybe 160 pages, but for some reason facebook hasn't allowed me to "Like" pages on my own for at least 6 months now. I found a way around it in asking friends on the page to suggest the page to me, so I can like from my Page Suggestions area.
And to add to this… I just started a new page and not only can I not "Like" it, but now, I can't even get around it as no one can suggest it to me…. my own page!
This is not my favorite facebook change here.
Comment by Krystal Rushing — January 22, 2011 @ 5:11 pm
I was using it all the time and love to refer people to useful pages. This is the way to help people. Hopefully this button will come back soon!
Comment by Carele — January 22, 2011 @ 6:49 pm
It is working again but ONLY when you are admin, for non admin the link is removed
Comment by Cedric — January 22, 2011 @ 7:18 pm
idiots. major feature for my page.
Comment by Bob — January 22, 2011 @ 8:17 pm
I just tried to do this today unaware that there was a change. I just thought Facebook changed the placing. I ended up clicking "Share" way at the bottom and then emailing the person the page.
Comment by Karen — January 23, 2011 @ 12:16 am
Its finally working again !
Would be really bad if you couldn't suggest and share your page. http://www.facebook.com/ilikeyoutk
Comment by Asaf — January 23, 2011 @ 10:12 am
You are misinformed.
Comment by Susan Esquorti — January 23, 2011 @ 10:26 am
remove the option ? What is your source ? I suppose Fb is doing an update for fanpages !
Comment by White Wolf — January 23, 2011 @ 10:29 am
as of now you must be an Admin to suggest the page to friends. I'm so angry about this change. i hope they add a new way for people to share the pages they like with friends without having to be and admin.
Comment by quietBUZZ — January 24, 2011 @ 1:00 am
Just a way for facebook to make more money because now you would have to get an ad to reach people. This is ridiculous though come on facebook dont act like myspace now.
Comment by jws — January 24, 2011 @ 3:36 am
mmmh why?
maybe because there are facebook adds and fb need more money?
Comment by evilripper — January 24, 2011 @ 6:07 am
I guess they did this to get page admins to pay for ads… Facebook is going way to far :S
Comment by Phil — January 24, 2011 @ 9:41 am
I use it regularly as an Admin and suggest to my friends that they use it as well. It is a great tool and should be reinstated.
Comment by Del — January 24, 2011 @ 12:30 pm
I used this all the time to let people know about new businesses they might actually be interested in. It was easy enough to ignore suggestions if you didn't want to subscribe to the suggested material.
Comment by genia — January 24, 2011 @ 12:37 pm
I'm sure they have their reasons, but this makes usability a giant pain.
Comment by kevin — January 24, 2011 @ 12:42 pm
Will FB return "Suggest Page To Friends" Feature for members who don't own the FB page?
I want to use it to promote FB pages which I created (I have multi FB accounts) to my friends on FB.
Comment by Iman — January 24, 2011 @ 12:53 pm
I agree……I think they should put it back on. . I have been able to hook up with people that I haven't seen in like 15 years and would not have been able to find them without the help of suggest a friend.
Comment by Jessica — January 24, 2011 @ 1:45 pm
I have both used 'suggest' on other pages, as well as my own.
This doesn't seem like a prime move to maximize traffic to FB, or the individual pages.
Comment by ElizaM — January 24, 2011 @ 4:35 pm
As an admin I only used it when I 1st made the page, mostly it's a pages fans that utilize it to tell their friends about the great pages they find (spread the word). So leaving it for admins only is really pointless.
Just my 2 cents.
Comment by Mary — January 24, 2011 @ 11:34 pm
This is either a glitch or another idiotic move by Facebook. I'm really hoping it's a glitch, but it does seem to be yet another way Facebook is trying to force people to buy their advertising to advertise, Facebook – What a sham.
I hope if they did this on purpose that their traffic will take a hit. The place is already feeling more and more like Myspace each day – hopefully the true Facebook killer will come around…and SOON.
Comment by JIDF — January 25, 2011 @ 7:00 am
the option still works on my page… http://www.facebook.com/ogsfun
Comment by ogs — January 25, 2011 @ 7:50 am
Agreed! This was a very beneficial feature to many pages! I should be allowed to suggest a page I like to friends that I think would enjoy it, too. Not to mention, from a business standpoint this could be a real issue in social media optimization and marketing, which has become integral to most businesses. BRING IT BACK!
Comment by DsquareD — January 25, 2011 @ 2:34 pm
Zuckerberg has enough money…trust me.
Comment by DsquareD — January 25, 2011 @ 2:48 pm
yes, i used it a lot to share pages I either Liked or thought others would want to Like. seems like FB dropped the social ball on this feature…isn't FB all about sharing?
I also am a page admin for multiple pages and I can still "Suggest to Friends" for those pages.
Comment by Jeff T — January 26, 2011 @ 12:02 am
Still works for me, don't see any problem…
Comment by bojandjordjevic — January 26, 2011 @ 4:09 am
Why would they get rid of that? It was really effective for us. Terrible, illogical decision by FB.
Comment by Jimbo — January 26, 2011 @ 3:27 pm
I would really like to see this feature be reinstated for everyone! It is a valuable part of the social networking world. C'mon Facebook! All these facebook friends are suggesting very substantially.
Comment by becky — January 26, 2011 @ 6:30 pm
If I am not mistaken, those that have a business page use this to promote and advertise their business page, I know that I do. This advertisement crosses state lines, so it becomes interstate commerce. To remove the button without the the consent of the business owner could be construed as obstruction of interstate commerce which would be a federal violation. Maybe the ACLU could weigh in on this? Only if this removal is a permanent one.
Comment by Greig — January 26, 2011 @ 7:22 pm
hello, it works on every page, if you are admin but: NOBODY OF YOUR FANS can suggest YOUR Site to his friends. THAT´S THE PROBLEM You see the butto SUGGEST TO FRIEND only when you are ADMIN.
Please read here the official decision of facebook: http://www.jafethmariani.com/2011/01/now-its-offi...
Comment by jafeth mariani — January 26, 2011 @ 8:07 pm
I just learned that the Suggest Friends feature was removed! I use this feature often for my own page and for suggesting other pages to my friends. It sure makes it difficult for networking! Ironic, isn't it?
Comment by Debra Westerhouse — January 26, 2011 @ 9:29 pm
We used it all the time for political organizing. This totally sucks.
Comment by GLC219 — January 27, 2011 @ 12:06 pm
I an not a page administrator, but I am a member of the organization and any time I get a new friend on Facebook I send them to our page,…. how can they become fans now?
Comment by Bob Prior — January 27, 2011 @ 3:21 pm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Safe-Street-Insuran...
This is my page, see if you can suggest this to friends. Mine stopped working a few days ago. This is no good.
Comment by Michael — January 27, 2011 @ 3:55 pm
MIssing the "suggest to friends." It grew our small art gallery's group very quickly. We recently changed to a page and the "suggest to friends" is gone and the page is building very slowly. I realize you can still share the page.
Comment by Jan Ironside — January 28, 2011 @ 1:02 pm
fock em. back to myspace
Comment by andres — January 28, 2011 @ 2:29 pm
this is ridiculous – my fans were happy to do it after i gave them a free download of my album – it was their way of returning the favor. x
Comment by neal — January 29, 2011 @ 9:58 am
It's been two weeks now, why is taking them ages to fix it! They are ruining my campaign because of this!
Comment by Selma — January 31, 2011 @ 5:55 am
it as been removed as people like myself used it to make thousands of $ a week and FB do not want anybody but them from making money on thei site
Comment by simon — January 31, 2011 @ 8:31 am
Please bring back the SHARE BUTTON…omg I use it all the time to suggest to friends on pages of artists & companys I like as well for the group I am an Admin on. In the meantime FB puts a limit on how many friends I can send a private email SUGGESTING any given page; extremely lethargic process to say the least. Please hurrys and FIX the Share Button!
Comment by AckomaChi — February 1, 2011 @ 2:54 am
So I just started a page today for a dog rescue. From my admin page it allowed me to suggest the page to friends, is it going to work and how long does the suggestion take to get to them? I heard it could take up to 24 hrs
Comment by Shocky — February 2, 2011 @ 4:38 pm
Facebook really needs to start looking after Businesses and Companies. Ultimately, they pay for Facebook via Advertising. People complain about spam, but this is so easy to prevent: don't like a page if you don't want to get their feed. simple.
Comment by Katrina — February 2, 2011 @ 10:10 pm
Yes admins can access it but it does not work. It will say it send the invites but it does not actually succeed.
Comment by Oliver — February 3, 2011 @ 5:13 am
This really takes away from the whole Facebook experience, especially since Facebook has a limit to how many likes you can like. Friends would suggest pages so I could continue to like pages. I've taken pages off and still cannot like pages.
Comment by Nina — February 3, 2011 @ 2:40 pm
Not only is it annoying, but hopefully all the data rolls down hill. Will the information be deleted??? I just suggested 180 peeps last week with a message to small reaction. thanks
Comment by Chris — February 4, 2011 @ 12:30 pm
i am the admin but when i select all my friends i and push suggest it doesnt!
Comment by george — February 4, 2011 @ 1:17 pm
I'm suggesting this page to all of you. =)
http://www.facebook.com/SleenGilver
Comment by Sleen — February 4, 2011 @ 6:10 pm
I am an Admin, and sent invitations to friends. No 'gray-out' emerged on profiles of friends who were (allegedly) invited. But the invitations did not fly, although Facebook 'claims' that they were sent. I wish Facebook's 'Tech Support' – if such a department actually exists – would fix the problem.'
My page, for those who wish to visit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Citizens-For-Legiti...
Comment by Lori Price — February 6, 2011 @ 2:12 pm
It is a huge loss for the page admins, specially for admins who have invested a lot in creating FB pages applications to attract more fans
Comment by Vikash — February 6, 2011 @ 2:50 pm
DISAPPOINTED!!!! They need to bring back the 'Suggest to Friends' button!!!
Comment by Susan — February 7, 2011 @ 2:45 am
in fact… admins still see the link but it doesn't work for the moment.
i think it would be a really bad idea to skip the "suggest to…"-option. The page growth will suffer and a lot of companies will think about entering facebook and spend their money…
a really bad decision…
Comment by Mario Jung — February 7, 2011 @ 3:36 am
Very pissed off at facebook for disabling this feature. I worked endless hours creating a great page, and now this. Now I know why some friends call it EVIL FACEBOOK
Comment by joe — February 7, 2011 @ 9:17 pm
Ridiculous! Looks like they have eliminated it it. I did a Facebook Help Center search for "suggest to friends" and found this entry,indicates feature is only available for admins:
Facebook Pages › Facebook Pages: Creating, administering and editing your Page
How can people suggest my Page to their friends?
All Page admins have the option to suggest their Page to friends by selecting the "Suggest to Friends" link in the upper left side of the Page. Non-admins do not have this option, and are not able to view this link. However, they can share a Page with friends by selecting the "Share" link in the bottom left side of the Page. They can then choose to share it via a post on their profile, which may appear in their friends' News Feeds, or with specific friends via a message.
Comment by @Dadooz — February 8, 2011 @ 9:28 am
Yep, no more suggest to friends. Which sucks. Our page fans are mainly teenagers, who are REALLY fickle anyway. Trying to get them to scroll all the way down to the left hand side, hit share, is not going to be easy. And we have spent thousands on our facebook ads already….
http://www.facebook.com/themergeshow
Comment by @themergeshow — February 8, 2011 @ 12:25 pm
You also can not edit the "Information" Box on the Front Page Anymore
Comment by Patrick McNamara — February 9, 2011 @ 6:25 am
Actually it doesn't. Or at least it only works in a very limited way. I (the administrator) can suggest my page to … drum roll please… the friends of that page.
Comment by Dominika — February 9, 2011 @ 3:28 pm
I think the aim is to get you to pay them for ads.
I used the feature as an admin but instead of sending out messages to recipients, Facebook now generates an ad on the right hand column of their page (which people have long been ignoring). I ‘suggested’ my page to up to 200 friends and after 12 hours not one ‘like’ had been gotten from them. I started getting 'likes' only after reactivating one of my ads.
I can’t blame them for wanting more money though.
Comment by DrAW! — February 10, 2011 @ 9:56 am
Mine doesn't work either
. I tried last night and today and tonight…. It just keeps pretending its working but when u open suggest friends again, it shows it didn't work the first time cause u can highlight the friends again………and I just started a page… please help me and Like my new page http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/FB-Likes/1932542…
Comment by juan — February 10, 2011 @ 11:52 pm
I really would like to recommend a page to some friends. When will this be resolved?
Comment by TDW — February 12, 2011 @ 3:47 pm
I use this to drive traffic to my page daily. It is hurting my business.
Comment by bryan — February 15, 2011 @ 2:55 pm
Very disapointing. I'm administrator and although the button "send recommendations" appears and you can push it nobody receive any recommendation of the page at all. it has decrease the number of fans that join my page, which means that one of the main feature for me to join facebook seems to have dissapear. Please, fix it or I'll be moving.
Comment by Bandada de Palabras — February 16, 2011 @ 5:11 pm
How have you managed it to work?
Comment by Bandada de Palabras — February 16, 2011 @ 5:14 pm
This is an awful change! As both an administrator and a fan of pages! It is the best and quickest way to share our pages! It is key to growth! Are they just using this so we have to spend more money using ads! FIX IT FACEBOOK!
Comment by Abby — February 16, 2011 @ 7:17 pm
Hmmm…not sure many people are aware that they actually IMPROVED this by creating the "share" link to utilize better. Now you click share in 2 ways: logged in AS your biz page allows you to post in the home feed of your fans which can then easily be shared with others. Your biz can actually "self promote" this way. You also have the choice to "share" your page to your friends/family as your regular personal profile as well. So depending on your audience, you can share your page one of two ways or both. You do realize the "suggest to friends" feature wasnt viral, right? You suggest, and it usually ended at the person you suggested to. And typically it was the same people over and over anyway. Now with "share" it is actually easier for your fans to now share it again easily in THEIR home feed. If anyone doesnt get it, feel free to email me. My company specializes in SMM. The new feature has increased my clients on Facebook's presence, and we manage 60+ fanpages. As well, "tell your fans" in the "marketing" section of your page includes a .csv file upload where you can use your email database to send invites out to people in this database FROM your company. It used to be from your personal profile. Good changes, people. You just need to know how to use them
Now, the wall not in chronological order is the HORRIBLE change that I heard will be fixed! That's the change you should be complaining about! lol…See our Facebook page to see feedback from the seminars we give about using Facebook for marketing and to stay up to date on how to use your FB page for your marketing initiatives, as well as all of social media.
Comment by Bill DeRosa — February 17, 2011 @ 12:02 am
This sucks. This removes the primary reason I useFB.
Unprofessional to give no warning.
Comment by ryan — February 17, 2011 @ 12:40 am
This link is Not working, My admin , suggest to friends not working . ! The only reason to remove it from fans dashboard is to force advertising
Comment by Kathleen Chute — February 17, 2011 @ 8:15 am
Mine Doesn't work at all.
Comment by Kathleen Chute — February 17, 2011 @ 8:17 am
wicked, This is The first Time I Really need it.
Comment by Kathleen Chute — February 17, 2011 @ 8:18 am
Please e mail me when this is Fixed. I Cant tell anyone about my page
Comment by Kathleen Chute — February 17, 2011 @ 8:20 am
I would like to know some more info on how to market better from FB…what is your page?
Comment by Justin — February 17, 2011 @ 3:12 pm
Any news about when they will fix this bug? Very frustrated by facebook, as I'm trying to build the number of followers for an online documentary currently screening. Please follow our journey on facebook:
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Comment by steinar — February 17, 2011 @ 10:55 pm
Ug, I JUST asked all of my work colleagues to suggest our page to all of their friends to increase our likes. None of them are admins. So I just spent ten minutes adding everyone as admins so they can suggest their friends. Now I have to take them all off. I'm relieved I found this website and will be checking this site more often!
Comment by Rebecca — February 18, 2011 @ 12:58 pm
i used this feature all the time, as did many of our fans on latimesenvironment facebook page. i hope that facebook will put it back
Comment by margot roosevelt — February 18, 2011 @ 2:28 pm
I can't believe how Facebook keeps eliminating useful functionality. Like with the "view comment" button on photo pages that's now missing for months! I've used the "suggest to friends" quite often, let's see if they can bring back this one at least.
Comment by Sir Robin — February 19, 2011 @ 3:52 am
For me it was massive for all my clients I paid a team with large friend lists to suggest and it grew quickly now it's very difficult! wish they would sort it out!
Comment by Alan Johnston — February 19, 2011 @ 5:05 pm
BRING IT BACK!!!
Comment by hey — February 20, 2011 @ 2:07 pm
You can suggest some pages, via private inbox message, and usually these pages have hundreds or thousands of fans already. I think facebook has thrown a wet towel on positive networking
I hope they bring something similar back.
Comment by Den — February 20, 2011 @ 8:39 pm
I used to suggest fan-pages either as administrator or as a simple user.
this is a real nuisance. I am very surprised that facebook decides to take off such an important tool….please let me if there are news! info@promae.it
Comment by promae — February 21, 2011 @ 5:13 am
for me too – the basic one!
Comment by promae — February 21, 2011 @ 5:14 am
I am an administrator. But it doesn'work anymore. I do get a pop up screen to select friends but nothing actually happens when I 'send recommendations'.
Comment by ingrid — February 23, 2011 @ 3:33 pm
If you ask me, this was intentionally done by facebook to promote use of ads for monetary reasons.
Comment by Doug — February 24, 2011 @ 9:09 am
some people still have the option while others do not. When visiting my friend Diana's page I am able to use the suggest button, but when other visit my page, it is removed.
Why do some have it while others do not?
Comment by Chrisitne — February 25, 2011 @ 7:39 pm
this is too much. FB needs to give people organic and paid options to grow their page, since both ways foster use of the network
Comment by mguys — February 25, 2011 @ 9:03 pm
The best way to convince FB to bring back the feature – is mass lowering of ad bids – to no more than 1c. Follow me on twitter @RianGeldenhuys if you agree!
Comment by @RianGeldenhuys — February 27, 2011 @ 6:43 am
BRING THE FUCKING BUTTON BACK!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Zardonic — February 28, 2011 @ 5:31 am
This is especially important to get the first 25 friends so you can get a unique URL for your page. I just created a new fan page and it's painfully slow getting friends to like it. Facebook needs to fix this ASAP
Comment by @lubedirect — February 28, 2011 @ 2:21 pm
This is very frustrating this feature is great for building a fan base, FB has to fix this sooner rather than later.
Comment by Fred — March 1, 2011 @ 10:57 am
Im still seeing Suggest to Friends but its not actually working so how to tell friends to join my Fan Page Im stuck apart from sending to link to everyone or adding to my profile I suppose this is so anoying and Ive only just found out too…
Comment by Mrs J — March 1, 2011 @ 3:20 pm
3-1-11 Are administrators still having problems with suggesting to fans?
Comment by Julie — March 1, 2011 @ 7:14 pm
The update at the end says: One thing that may not have been clear: admins can still access the feature, however fans of a page cannot.
That's not true. When I first updated my page profile to the 'new look', I found they had moved it from the left side to the upper right, under ACCOUNT. A day later, it disappeared from there. I never even knew it was ever available to fans as I am the administrator. What good is a page if you can't encourage friends to become "fans" – or as they changed it "likes". I'd like to be able to suggest to non-friends also – such as clients who are on FB but aren't necessarily friends.
Comment by Penny — March 2, 2011 @ 12:21 am
I used this all the time! Particularly with pages that supported a cause! I'm super bummed about this change
Comment by Luna — March 2, 2011 @ 12:16 pm
I am going crazy trying to do the same. The "suggest a page" feature comes and goes from my admin area of our page. When it is there is does not work, now I can't find it again. FB seems to not care crap about their users. Either have the feature or don't. But it seems somewhat stupid to have a social networking site that does not network socially . . . not a good way to create brand loyalty. Keep this up FB and 2 years from now people will have moved on to the next big thing.
Comment by marcelandmeher — March 4, 2011 @ 1:12 am
It seems this has been an issue since last quarter of 2010, not sure what would take so long, makes things very difficult.
Comment by robliano — March 4, 2011 @ 2:03 pm
we've found that it works for the creator of the page, but whoever came in after to admin does not get access to it.
Comment by nikolasa — March 4, 2011 @ 8:03 pm
I read that Facebook disabled the "suggest to friends" feature because they want admins to advertise their pages, rather than "suggesting" them. There's no other reason that they would take this long to fix a simple issue. It used to be that Facebook worked fairly well, these days I seem to reporting bugs every other day. I spent $10K a year on advertising with them and my page was unusable for almost a month recently and they wouldn't respond to my bug reports. For a company that is worth billions with massive teams of engineers, it doesn't make sense that they have this many problems. I keep hoping Facebook goes the way of MySpace and a new social networking website comes along that is more responsive to it's users needs.
Comment by Sara — March 6, 2011 @ 11:10 am
Not going to be forced and pay Facebook thousands of dollars just to promote to strangers, I very much enjoy keeping in touch with true fans, and with the people that have been in interest for years and build up fanbase from there. I'm sure every band on the planet feels the same way.
Comment by facebook sucks — March 7, 2011 @ 3:34 am
i think it will be back soon
Comment by Arun — March 8, 2011 @ 9:54 am
I used it all the time. I am very disappointed that it is no longer available. It's stupid NOT to have it.
Comment by Robin — March 8, 2011 @ 11:20 am
such a disappointment!! Due to unknown issues with a merger on my business page I had to create a NEW one, and now I can't share with my friends like before, and it has had an incredibly negative impact on my business page. Such a ginormous bummer.
Comment by Michael's Pizzeria — March 8, 2011 @ 11:52 pm
Does anyone know the status of this? I was able to open up the "Suggest to Friends" and I was able to send the request but don't know if it works or not. After I sent the request to numerous freinds that were highlighted, it did unhighlight them after I sent. However, does it work? Any updates on this would be most helpful. Thank you!
Comment by Donna — March 9, 2011 @ 11:21 am
I used it all the time! Oh well.
Comment by Alice — March 10, 2011 @ 2:57 pm
Simple… just ask your friends…
Comment by Dave — March 11, 2011 @ 12:19 pm
I also use this feature all the time, as do our fans, and yes I am still going to call them fans even though they changed that too.
Comment by christine — March 12, 2011 @ 1:32 pm
I can't believe facebook got rid of such a useful tool. I used to use this feature all the time. I really hope bring it back soon.
Comment by Pat — March 13, 2011 @ 12:34 am
Yes, it sucks. I really don't want to start paying for Facebook ads, and in fact, I won't.
http://www.facebook.com/givejonadollar
Comment by givejonadollar — March 13, 2011 @ 6:19 pm
I honestly think they removed it on purpose to get us all to buy their ads…I am not buying. There are still great ways to build your fan base guys!!! Just takes more work and more time. Contests are a great way to build fans!!
Comment by meg — March 13, 2011 @ 10:53 pm
facebook is starting to suck! greedy bastards
Comment by chinasky — March 16, 2011 @ 9:29 pm
very disappointing !!!!!!!!!!!
Im going to think twice about relying on Facebook to market my company
Comment by itchoo — March 17, 2011 @ 11:26 am
i suggested a few pages to friends that i wasnt administrator of. and as administrator you can suggest but it gets stuck, i don't think anything happens
Comment by eva cooper — March 18, 2011 @ 8:46 am
[...] Facebook has quietly and selectively restored the ability for administrators to suggest pages to friends. [...]
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This is a real bummer — I used this tool all the time! it's great for bringing a group of friends together on a common interest, affiliation; hope it comes back soon!
Comment by Jen Deneen — March 19, 2011 @ 8:52 pm
Again, there seems to be some problem with this feature for quite some time now..
Comment by Gouri — March 20, 2011 @ 3:19 am
Wow, just noticed this disabled feature again today. Sort of annoying because now I have to post a link to my page in my profile instead of just sending out a quick friendly email as a page suggestion. :/
Comment by cjkline83 — March 21, 2011 @ 1:40 am
Very disappointing trying to get people to get to my page ( http://tinyurl.com/4hd88ll ) when it does not work.
If facebook wanted it fixed it would be by now. They are trying to monetize it.
Comment by Dan — March 23, 2011 @ 5:42 am
I just discovered that it was missing today when I went to suggest a page to my friends. It makes it really inconvenient and flat out difficult to share a page with my friends, I would send a message to my friends but am only allowed 20 people when I hit "share", add to that I don't know who has already been invited to "like" the page already. WHY!?!?
Comment by Dallas — March 23, 2011 @ 4:27 pm
we tried and works well as admin, and what about some friends,can they suggest a [age to their friends as well?
Comment by souvenir pernikahan — March 25, 2011 @ 11:44 am
As admin of a page i also used a mailing list to suggest the page. No error mentionned … but no one received any message !! Seems quite long for Facebook to fix that issue ?!
Comment by Kilu — March 26, 2011 @ 5:44 am
Yes, I agree. As a page admin, I am very disappointed!
Comment by Nico — March 26, 2011 @ 9:16 am
Well Facebook has become smart and changed the "suggest to friends" feature. Now you can't suggest ur page to your friends through an email notification. Now your suggestions will be part of "recommended pages" on your friend's profile on the right side bar, similar to how you see a paid Fb ad.
Very disappointing for me and for many other FB page administrators. Previously my fan conversion from Invites was around 15 percent. So i just had to keep sending more and more invites to get more fans. But I can do it anymore.
I think Fb has made this change because:
1. They want people to pay for their ads (now that invites feature is no more like what it was, you have no option but to do ad campaigns on Fb to increase fans).
2. Many administrators (and social media agencies) had developed a system of creating fake profiles just to send out invites for pages. For example, going by my 15% conversion theory, all you had to do to get 100,000 fans was to send out 1.5 million invites. Now considering I have 4500 friends for each fake profile (i can easily get 5000 friends for a profile in 2 months) you just need to have around 350 fake profiles to send out more than 1.5 million invites. Trust me there are agencies with more than 1000 fake profiles (mostly women). Now facebook was losing out on ad money because ppl had developed a system of sending invites.
3. I am happy that people who had developed their business model based on the above system are going to bite the dust now, and there will be less spamming. I've been bombarded with FB invites from fake profiles (i know when i see one). But i am also dissapointed cause i can't do the same myself (in my own small way) now. Nobody wants to admit it but we all did it, in a small or big way.
Now that the system has changed, anybody has has an idea of how to generate fans easily? I know all the "creative ways" so please don't trouble yourself pointing those out to me. If you have something new and exciting way, pls mail me at skpsmart@gmail.com
Comment by Shiv — March 26, 2011 @ 10:55 am
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suggest to friends still isn't working.
it's a disappointment because this is the best way to spread the word of my newly created facebook page.
Comment by Julie — March 30, 2011 @ 2:20 am
dear sir
it will be back or not ! i have many work pending on it !
Comment by Umer — March 30, 2011 @ 4:33 am
doesn't work at all!!! Hate this.
Comment by Merle Loman — March 30, 2011 @ 5:31 pm
I used this feature ALL the time. And now that i changed my company name and created a new fan page… I CAN'T get anyone to "like" me on the new page. This is ridiculous that they got rid of it. It took me forever to reach 25 people just so I could create a custom url…
Comment by Erik — March 30, 2011 @ 7:41 pm
Nice attitude, a**hole…
You have to ask FACEBOOK if they are bringing it back, not someone helpful here who is just keeping us up-to-date on all the annoying changes/shenanigans FB is continually pulling…
Learn some grammar while you're at it!
Comment by Topher — March 31, 2011 @ 7:57 pm
I don't even have a page to admin, but I find this VERY annoying of facebook. There were many bands/artists/causes/etc. that I used to like "suggest" to my friends.
Does anyone know why they did away with it, and if it's coming back?!?…
Comment by Topher — March 31, 2011 @ 7:58 pm
I also have been trying and it still is not working or even available
Comment by Deb — April 2, 2011 @ 12:31 pm
This is BS… They just want to sell more Ads. Oh and Like – Sex Sells Inc. Clothing on Facebook
Comment by Mr. Tees — April 3, 2011 @ 12:27 am
Facebook is tempting me to go back to Myspace soon if they do not fix the suggest problem on the fan pages!
Comment by @Cowboy_Bills — April 3, 2011 @ 3:47 am
http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-cAn-dIe-tO-kEeP-u...
Plz Join have to get 150 members till tonight~!
Comment by Moeed — April 5, 2011 @ 4:22 am
I used it lots to help promote my driving school really hacked off about this.
Comment by Jim — April 6, 2011 @ 9:36 am
I think they need to add it back it is very useful when setting up a new page, how else can you share it?
Comment by Brandon — April 10, 2011 @ 11:14 am
no, it's still not working.
I just started putting a page together for our band and suggested a couple friends to test out before attempting to send to all my FB friends and while it acted like it sent them a message, they did not receive it.
Any news from Facebook on this?
Does anyone have a work around to be able to send my bands new FB Page to all my personal FB friends?
Comment by Alan Drown — April 11, 2011 @ 5:25 pm
Hello! pls, can u tell me if the problem is solved? I tried with 3 different browsers but nothing…the "suggest to friends" box is not there:(
Comment by @mistresslife — April 16, 2011 @ 11:10 am
Myspace will be back !
Comment by Exocet — April 17, 2011 @ 11:52 am
I suggest you to like: http://www.facebook.com/century21romania
Thank you
Comment by admin c21 — April 19, 2011 @ 4:08 am
This drives me crazy!! My husband is self employed, and I have a small business page myself. We both received letters to our businesses from facebook, about trying out their advertising. We can't afford anything extra. Wake up facebook – or you will loose a lot of users.
Comment by CherBo — April 20, 2011 @ 12:49 am
im F**& pissed off with this thing…i really need this function to be back badly… loosing a lot of potential customers these way…stupid FB……
Comment by linda — April 21, 2011 @ 4:04 am
It is there for admins but is wonky, and wont load up names properly. I get 4 friend icons across only with the rest of the friends list running off/out the side of the pop up window.
I think they are screwing it up on purpose to drive people to use their ads to promote pages.
Comment by jjbrainstorm — April 21, 2011 @ 1:13 pm
Why would you remove something so usefull? Very annoying
Comment by Sajida — April 23, 2011 @ 5:22 pm
Stupid move by Facebook. My fans used it all the time too, and I liked to shared pages I liked with different FB friends.
Comment by Jackinthebox — April 23, 2011 @ 8:59 pm
Hey people, you can find all your invites here : http://www.facebook.com/pages/browser.php
Comment by bibi — April 26, 2011 @ 10:23 am
This needs to be fixed. I'm loosing potential customers. I just found out it wasnt working and now realize thats why I've missed at least 20 to 30 new likes to my business page. Ironically when I used the tool it said it sent the requests and marked the friend as having the recommendation sent. FIX THIS.
Comment by Preston — April 26, 2011 @ 5:49 pm
Small buisnesses have to pay facebook now in order to get a "like"…I believe that this is the purpose of the removal of suggest to friend feature…It is very disappointing….
Comment by υγραεριοκ?νηση — May 4, 2011 @ 6:12 am
If you are on internet explorer it looks like that if you get on firefox for goole chrome it doesnt
I'm also annoyed that you can't have your fans suggest the page to their friends the only option is to have them share it on their page or make them an admin of your page so they can do that. I made my brother and cousin an admin just so they can do that. I just want to get to 25 to get my url.
Comment by ana — May 4, 2011 @ 10:47 pm
Not good that this feature is gone.
Comment by Maria Antonatos — May 5, 2011 @ 10:20 am
I just create a hobby/not-quite-biz page and am VERY disappointed to only be able to see 3.5 of my friends. Someone suggested filtering so I'm only viewing a particular list of friends, but regardless of which one I filter on, it's still 3.5 of those friends. Facebook, we NEED this feature!!!!!
BTW, I've linked it to this post as my web site, so if you'd like to check it out … thanks!
Comment by Prairie Primitives — May 6, 2011 @ 9:41 am
How do I fix the suggest to friends feature on my page???
Comment by Chris — May 7, 2011 @ 11:33 am
I am an administrator of a couple of business pages. For some reason when I click "Suggest to Friends", it only shows me a couple of friends and the box is cut off. Is this happening to anyone else? What can I do?
Comment by Jax — May 10, 2011 @ 12:07 am
hello can you tell me plz how much time if it,s back
what this future can back on facebook application
regards
Umer
Comment by Awan — May 11, 2011 @ 5:07 am
Looks like a cash grab to me. These people want to take over the Internet??????
Comment by tony — May 13, 2011 @ 2:57 am
i want the suggest friends feature, but cant get it. if its been removed how come 4 of my friends have it? this is not fair or ethical!
Comment by shirley — May 13, 2011 @ 8:02 pm
So that's the isssue. Took me weeks of trying to resolve this. Can't believe they would just remove it – for what purpose? Isn't that what this is all about Facebook? Sharing? Befriending?
Comment by Laura Burgess — May 20, 2011 @ 10:17 am
The features seems to be back. But I"m not sure it actually works. I just sent a recommendation to a friend and he confirmed that he received nothing.
Comment by Kaisrr — May 24, 2011 @ 6:38 pm
Not working for me, either. Does anyone know whether they're planning on fixing this?
Comment by Christy — May 25, 2011 @ 2:36 pm
Problem is the feature still does not work for admins..least does not for my Page and hasn't worked for a few months still.
Comment by James — May 25, 2011 @ 11:01 pm
i want to bring back all my friends that i might have delited by askadent
Comment by david b eccles — May 29, 2011 @ 4:02 pm
I didn't realize this feature was gone until I went to suggest Game of Thrones to some of my friends, and found out that I can't. Not only admins use this feature, I used it to suggest bands, shows, games, and various things that I thought my friends might like. And I'm not one of those have 500 people I don't know as friends types, my facebook friends are all old highschool and hometown buddies from 10 years ago, current friends, family, and people I game with…
Comment by Cole — June 1, 2011 @ 9:38 pm
i think you can if you mean your facebook fan page want suggest to visitor friends …..you can see at http://www.facebook.com/daftarpenipulewatfesbuk
Comment by Lucky — June 3, 2011 @ 3:09 pm
I admin several pages and I HATE that this feature is gone!! BRING IT BACK FACEBOOK!!
Comment by Lorri — June 5, 2011 @ 6:51 pm
I don't have the Suggest to Friends for either of my pages. As an author, I depend on this to help spread the word about book launches and events and such. This really stinks FB!
Comment by shayfabbro — June 7, 2011 @ 11:30 am
This article was posted jan 21 and this feature is still not working for me… sucks
Comment by @SMObsessed — June 10, 2011 @ 1:17 pm
does not work. how can small businesses use Facebook to promote their products. We cannot afford Facebook ad prices but we certainly can frefer peoplet o those ad purchasing companies and pages. This is not place for business- rule changes every other week, how can one strategically mark out a business plan with this function or that coming and going.
Comment by Gail Medeiros — June 13, 2011 @ 6:06 pm
Amen ta' that Joanne!
I've had friends who joined my fan page pushed off/dropped off by Facebook scripts and I used to use this "tool" as a monitor to make sure I don't loss fans. My fan numbers have dropped by one… and I've made more friends since the "Suggest to Friends" link was removed, so I guess I need to do things manually.
Trish
Comment by web page designer — June 21, 2011 @ 12:58 pm
My suggest to friends box isn't working properly it pops up in a box to small for the actual app??? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Comment by Josh — June 21, 2011 @ 4:33 pm
My gut feeling is the removal of the "suggest to friends" features is simply about forcing admins to pay for advertising, since a simple suggestion for a "like" is now no longer an easy thing to push along based on goodwill alone… It's clever, but talk about "monetisation" of a cornered, almost ubiquitous social hub. It is pretty disappointing….
Comment by Dr. Chuck — June 29, 2011 @ 4:27 am
Exactly my feeling
Comment by Dr. CHuck — June 29, 2011 @ 4:28 am
just created a fan page for my fledgling business, I was able to click on suggest to friends, select friends and hit recommend, but no one got the notice. NO ONE. So it LOOKS like it is working, but it isn't. Also, you cant go back and reselect those people that you wanted to send it to. They are all grayed out.
HELP!!!!!!
Comment by Shannon — June 29, 2011 @ 1:05 pm
Definitely a mistake. I used this feature all the time on pages I am not an administrator of. For example, there is a new hot spot restaurant that my friends and I were talking about in our town and I wanted to suggest their facebook page to my friends but can't. Very disappointing.
Comment by Red — July 5, 2011 @ 9:32 am
I still see the button on my page, but any new friends that I have are not showing up and therefore I can not suggest that page to them.
Comment by Frank E. Almeida — July 6, 2011 @ 9:13 am
this feature is needed
it is the worst facebook can do … 
http://www.2thing.com is my website..
Comment by Pakistanec Harcos — July 7, 2011 @ 5:01 am
GRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Not nice Facebook. Well, since I can't suggest my pg. to you on FB I guess I'll do it on here.
http://www.facebook.com/haleyplotnikmusic
booyah
Comment by haley — July 9, 2011 @ 3:21 pm
This is BS. I can't find the feature. I see it, then it disappears. Any advice?
Comment by California SEO — July 13, 2011 @ 2:51 pm
all this time i was getting offended because none of my close friends were 'liking' my page after suggesting they do so. now i find out FB has intentionally left this feature 'broken'. i hope Google+ eats their fucking lunch. up yours FB.
Comment by Sincerely Pissed Off — July 14, 2011 @ 11:40 pm
as an admin I can still see the feature "invite friends" but it does not send out the invites. Any way to make it work? besides the Smart suggest to friends plugin
Comment by archdose — July 16, 2011 @ 12:50 pm
Thanks for sharing that i have check in new layout there was not such an option..
Comment by Dj Sophia — July 20, 2011 @ 12:55 pm
please bring this button back
Comment by Keith — July 30, 2011 @ 3:01 pm
I always suggest my friends if I find something appropriate for each person. Now the big problem comes wen I made my page ( for local business) and I can suggest it to my 900 contact. And that's ridiculous, why I have build this contacts then. There are a "invite friend" bottom which obviously don't function good.
Farther the massive messages are also not possible anymore.
Do I must to convert my business page in a group?????
Comment by missmikmik — August 3, 2011 @ 10:25 am
I don't believe in "invite friends" …I invite 900 and no body answer…. impossible
Comment by missmikmik — August 3, 2011 @ 10:28 am
That stinks. I like the suggest page feature. It made thing s easy.
Comment by Paola Seminario, MBA — August 5, 2011 @ 1:24 am
I agree. Every time we get used to a feature, especially one that is useful and time saving, they go and change it to something that is more time consuming or complicated.
Comment by Paola Seminario, MBA — August 5, 2011 @ 1:25 am
I used this tool a lot and am very sad to see it be gone. It has way slowed my page growth! Killing my business growth as well.
Comment by SonoraKay — August 7, 2011 @ 11:34 am
Yes this isn't good. We were using it to build our newly built comedy page and was working wonders until facebook took this feature off. :0( Hopefully they bring it back soon.
http://facebook.com/generationlosers
Comment by generationloser — August 13, 2011 @ 12:01 am
As admin for http://www.facebook.com/thetangenttwins I find this is not one of the best decisions facebook has undertaken…
Comment by The Tangent Twins — August 17, 2011 @ 8:20 am
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorado-Home-Exter... Like my page and become a fan and I'll like your page and share it!! Thanks lets help each other out
Comment by Suzanne Zoe La Monaca — August 19, 2011 @ 8:14 pm
Now it's called "INVITE FRIENDS" and it works! I selected the tab and invited 40 friends. So far, 15 of them have accepted. I wonder why it took facebook months to add this back on and why they found it necessary to go from SUGGEST TO FRIENDS to INVITE FRIENDS.
Comment by Rebecca — August 22, 2011 @ 2:14 pm
Very annoying…
Comment by Daniel — August 28, 2011 @ 7:49 am
I agree with the majority vote that the feature should have been left alone.
Comment by Birmingham Removals — August 30, 2011 @ 6:17 am
not interested in suggestions by facebook or others on who i might want to be friends with as i can make that choice myself. if i was interested in someone i dont know i would ask a friend…not facebook.
Comment by m. tamburello — August 31, 2011 @ 9:38 am
[...] Apparently Facebook is testing widgets that asks users whether they’d like to write a recommendation of a page — including a popups after they’ve clicked the like button. [...]
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i dont have any pages or ADS but i love the fact that u can put yourself out there and make great friends at the same time
Comment by anna giles — September 6, 2011 @ 5:08 am
I used it every month to update my likes on my band page APOLLO, today 12/09/11 & they still have not put the option back as yet.
Comment by Mark Browne — September 12, 2011 @ 12:49 pm
Using http://www.likestrain.com can grow my page likes
Comment by Ben Mcloud — September 21, 2011 @ 6:01 am
As a non-profit, this removal of the share button has basically killed the growth of my social network. Sad.
Comment by patti — September 27, 2011 @ 1:12 pm
Last time the suggest button was there, no one got my invitation. It's disappointing! Hope FB fixes it soon! The ability to invite people to pages, like for events, is super important!
Comment by Nathalie Laflamme — October 10, 2011 @ 11:58 am
Is the best way to spread ideas
Comment by Hector — October 19, 2011 @ 3:50 am
woking well!
Comment by Andre — October 24, 2011 @ 7:06 am
They have to implement a solution – it is one of my most used tools
Comment by Graphic Designer — November 8, 2011 @ 1:57 am
The problem being is that as with all things online, facebook is attempting to ensure that people stay on facebook for as long as possible – so having the ability to share links and perhaps leave their site is counter productive. The launch of Google Plus will perhaps shake things up a bit as facebook now has a 'big boy' contender to fight it out with and they will have to both attempt to please their users in order to keep them on their site and interested. If I'm on a site that doesn't allow me to drop links, then you can bet that I'll be moving over to a competitor that does!
Comment by SEO Surrey — December 6, 2011 @ 12:45 pm
I have two facebook pages last two month but i got traffic from these pages how can i get traffic for my site's
Comment by MSRC Global — December 17, 2011 @ 4:11 am
have the same opinion
Comment by Shops — December 19, 2011 @ 9:00 pm
this feature is so useful, why did facebook have to remove it???
Comment by jo2saints — January 7, 2012 @ 7:37 am
Good!
Comment by Alex — January 15, 2012 @ 5:04 pm
Why does facebook always doing something I dont want changed lol
Comment by Christie Caswell — January 30, 2012 @ 11:53 am
Please fix this—we miss it
Comment by Jen Martin — February 12, 2012 @ 9:35 am
Desi girls photos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Max-Media-3D/103733...
Comment by @gulraizakram149 — February 19, 2012 @ 2:31 am