In a subtle yet significant change for Facebook Page owners, the original creator of Pages can now be removed as an administrator by any other of the administrators of that Page. This was a serious issue for a number of companies who were looking to shift control of their Pages from a third-party company to someone internal. In other cases, Pages have been sold but administrators have been forced to stay the same. Regardless of the rationale for removing an administrator, doing so was never possible, until this weekend.
Facebook Pages have become the center of Facebook marketing campaigns for small, medium, and large businesses alike. Combined with Facebook ad campaigns, custom tabs, and ongoing user-engagement, Facebook Pages serve as a tool for building community, and often times result in more loyal customers, if the most recent surveys about Facebook Page customer conversion are accurate.
While the ability to remove the original Facebook Page administrators may seem like a small upgrade, it’s a feature that many Facebook Page owners have been asking for since Pages first launched. Thankfully, it’s now available. You can manage your administrators by clicking on “Edit Page” on the left-hand sidebar of your Facebook Page and then scroll down on the right to add and remove administrators.
It’s been like this for awhile (months). Unfortunately I found out a lot by trial and error. Admins can also DELETE the pages too. NOT a good idea. Hope Facebook rethinks this and gives back the power to the creator. I understand the business aspect but why not make it so the creator can appoint an admin as a co-creator so ownership can be transferred if the original creator leaves the company?
Comment by Miranda Opiela — June 14, 2010 @ 9:52 am
Thank you ONeil,
best wishes for all
Comment by Mourad Ben Aissa — June 14, 2010 @ 9:58 am
This is WONDERFUL!! It’s about time!
Comment by Elizabeth Pavlica — June 14, 2010 @ 10:25 am
What if I own the page? What prevents other admins from just taking over my page by removing me? This can’t be a good thing.
Comment by AJ — June 14, 2010 @ 10:28 am
SO if I own the page and one of my other page admins removes me, since I own the page, wouldn’t I be able to add myself back as an admin?
Comment by Steve — June 14, 2010 @ 11:23 am
I have wanted something like this for a while because of people leaving my company, but this is flawed. It should be a transfer of ownership process so that the admins cannot just remove the creator without approval.
Comment by Alison Brandt — June 14, 2010 @ 11:55 am
That option is required to take the page control for genuine person.
Thanks for update.
Comment by Tilak — June 14, 2010 @ 12:45 pm
This is HUGE news. About time!!!
Comment by Alejandro Reyes — June 14, 2010 @ 12:57 pm
For the most part, this is really good news for any business that had a third party (or member of staff who has now left the company) create their fan page. The inability to remove the originating Admin has been a major thorn in the side for so many people. However, this radical change to now allow any Admin to remove any Admin certainly means page owners have to give serious thought as to who has Admin rights and obviously stay in good relation with those folks!!
Comment by Mari Smith — June 14, 2010 @ 12:59 pm
Actually, this has been like this for a few weeks for me. I was an admin on a page I had not created. I then pressed delete knowing that I would NOT be able to delete it, as the creator was not me and was the other admin. The page deleted itself. I was shocked.
FYI – I was meant to delete it anyway, as we had set up a newer fanpage. But it definitely broke the theory that other admins could not delete someone else’s fan page. I dismissed it as a bug in the system, but remained shocked.
Seeing this update today, just thought I should chime in saying it isn’t new.
And. I think it is bad news. FB should have introduced a “transfer” or “permissions/accepting” tool, so that before a page is deleted, the other admins and creator have to approve it etc.
Comment by Nikita — June 14, 2010 @ 1:12 pm
Hopefully facebook will figure out that this is a disaster waiting to happen for many. Any admin can now just overthrow the page creator!! The page creator should be making the decision to bow out! I hope all page creators quickly take a look at all their admins before it’s too late. This wasn’t well thought out as usual.
Comment by Karen Vichos Foster — June 14, 2010 @ 1:43 pm
I think this is a great idea. I have several business clients who will be happy to know about this. I know the scenario of a fanpage “coup d’etat” sounds scary but your admin can already do quite a bit of damage to your page if they want to can’t they? But somehow you are trusting them with the power they have had thus far, is this that much more dangerous?
Comment by John Joyce — June 14, 2010 @ 1:58 pm
Any word on how/if this will affect groups? I’m a member of a group with NO admin left yet I can’t take control of it. Very irritating.
Comment by chewie — June 14, 2010 @ 2:23 pm
Ideally, the Creator of the page should be able to transfer their status to another Admin, rather than allowing Admins to “take” it from the creator.
Comment by Tom Ditmars — June 14, 2010 @ 5:14 pm
Great news! Thank you almighty Facebook, finally! I had a lot of problems caused by previous settings. Maybe it would be better to make it happen through transfer. On the other hands up to now admins could kick out anyone so whats the problem?!
Comment by Aleks — June 14, 2010 @ 5:43 pm
I don’t think people understand the amount of drama that can go on in all sorts of organizations that may have a Facebook page. Sometimes people leave, die (I’ve seen this — believe me you don’t want to bug a grieving family for Facebook stuff) or get upset with an organization and become spiteful. Because many page admins login to administer the page through their personal accounts, the ‘password’ hand-off is not possible.
This is a great opportunity to approach social media strategically with the right people and not because everyone else is doing it.
Comment by Marlina — June 14, 2010 @ 6:37 pm
Finally a good and useful upgrade from Facebook! I have been waiting for this long time as it has been a real nuisance to go and create those Facebook business pages for clients under a Google profile or some other “invented” identity.
Kris Olin MSc(econ.)
Social Media Marketing Consultant
Comment by Kris Olin — June 14, 2010 @ 8:27 pm
This is truly a great upgrade from Facebook! I have been waiting for this long time as it has been a real nuisance to go and create those FB pages for clients under a Google profile or some other “invented” identity.
Kris Olin MSc(econ.)
Social Media Marketing Consultant
Comment by Kris Olin — June 14, 2010 @ 9:20 pm
Hallelujah! This was the fix I needed! I can see how it could have been done better, but this works!
Comment by Kevin at Utah eBikes — June 15, 2010 @ 3:00 am
I am glad I am not the only one. So any administrator can now delaete the original creator and righful owner of a page??
Miranda, I think your proposal is a great idea.
Comment by Hernan — June 15, 2010 @ 9:49 am
I’m glad to see Facebook take this first step. However, I agree that they need to develop a method to transfer ownership of a page. As an educational institution we are using FB as a key method to reach our constituents, yet continuity of management of our various departmental FB pages has been a challenge.
Great first step Facebook, but don’t stop there.
Comment by Anna Buehrer — June 15, 2010 @ 11:01 am
This is welcomed news and I have just now removed myself from 5 client's Pages I created for them before I knew, as the 'creator' I was not going to be able to be removed! I have happy clients too.
Now we need to have Facebook implement "Share" to Pages as well as Profiles…hint, hint, hint….
Comment by Kirsty Wilson — June 17, 2010 @ 4:53 am
I want delete admin for my Page Facebook.
first time i have Sianclinic facebook, but after i click to make account KK then KK become Admin of Sianclinic. I dont know why.?
Can you helf me delete admin ?
i clicked Edit Page but Can not know how to delete it?
Please help me!
THanks
Comment by Sianclinic — June 17, 2010 @ 9:54 pm
I am having a problem being able to post a page, it tells me I am "other filter". I was admin and it did this, so I removed myself as admin..and it still filters it. Plus, now (because I am not admin) I can not add myself back as admin..becaue the "edit page" is gone. Ahh? Any ideas?
Comment by Paula — June 19, 2010 @ 11:56 am
I was admin of a facebook fan page.
My account was disabled…now there is no admin… what can I do??
I need to either get control or have a friend be admin.
HELP!
Comment by Steve Cooksey — June 21, 2010 @ 10:35 am
OK, What if I want to:
1. Remove myself as admin of a business account
2. Deactivate my personal account
3. Then be added back on the business account as an admin
How do I do it?
Comment by MB — July 1, 2010 @ 6:21 am
If I add an admin, do they need the username and password to the page to make edits or can the edit the page without logging in like that?
By the way, as the creator of a page, I have concerns about being automatically deleted by other admins as well.
Thanks.
JO
Comment by Jo Chris — July 17, 2010 @ 8:56 am
sorry for my bad english.
facebook decision is terrible. some one who create a page with more than 50,000 fans is not able to manage page alone. and if he add someones as admins, one of them can remove all admins and creator and have a page with 50,000 fans just in a second and write everything he wants. and no one knows. all fans think this posts are company's posts. they can make an option to transfer the page ownership by the current owner.
How can we able to request facebook team to fix this problem??? please help.
Comment by Armin — August 16, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
why no facebook now
Comment by dalyn montala — August 31, 2010 @ 4:21 am
"Thankfully it's now available." ?!!!
This is not necessarily a good feature. And It's easy for anyone to know why ……
Comment by Nikos M. — September 9, 2010 @ 3:24 pm
Not helpfull to page owners
one of the admins removed me as owner and removed me form admin too
Not a happy camper and need this sorting asap please
Comment by Diane Green — September 20, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
Same problem here. I'm fumeing.
Comment by Georgia — September 22, 2010 @ 2:37 am
I agree. I was going to assign an admin for my page. But now I need to manage it myself for the fear of being kicked out of my own page.
Any workarounds???
Comment by Guest — October 13, 2010 @ 2:39 pm
Hi Jo,
This has just happened to us. We lost our facebook page to someone we made an admin. Do u know any way we can reclaim it back?
Thanks
Comment by jaketupman — October 17, 2010 @ 6:49 pm
Has anyone noticed that you cannot remove the original admin now that the Facebook Fanpage edit interface has changed? I got the new design rollout this morning and need to modify admins and can no longer remove the original admin as you once could a few months back. Oversight?!
Comment by @dealerimpact — October 26, 2010 @ 12:35 pm
Yes I noticed that, too. Hopefully they will fix it because I can't imagine they are keeping it this way.
Comment by Guest — October 27, 2010 @ 11:55 am
[...] in June Facebook began letting companies remove the original page administrators, as we reported at the time, however that feature appears to have been removed with the release of the new Page administrator [...]
Pingback by Original Page Admins Can No Longer Be Removed, For Some — October 30, 2010 @ 2:54 pm
I have a problem that I hope someone can shed some light on… I have mistakingly removed myself from being an admin of a page and now there are no admins and I have no way of editing or managing the page. Does anyone know a way I can again become the admin? The page is live and no one can access the back end.
Comment by Scott — November 15, 2010 @ 6:58 pm
don't do it! if you remove yourself and there is no other administrator, your business page will be an orphan!! i did it accidentally and cannot get reinstated.
Comment by Melissa — November 18, 2010 @ 1:52 pm
yes you can—i was the creator and sole administrator of our business page. i accidentally deleted myself as administrator and can no longer manage the page!!!1
Comment by Melissa — November 18, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
have you gotten an answer???
Comment by Melissa — November 18, 2010 @ 1:54 pm
same here i removed myself as admin and i got a message from facebook team saying I lost all ights to page. WTF? they have got to be kidding me.
Comment by Angry — November 19, 2010 @ 10:06 pm
I am having the same issue, and would be so grateful if anyone has a solution.
Comment by Chris — November 30, 2010 @ 8:46 pm
This option is terribly wrong. Our company added one more admin, who has kicked us out and started to post what ever he wants. And we can not do anything about it? This is social fan page and we believed in his benevolence. Any ideas?
Karol
Comment by Karol — December 3, 2010 @ 9:38 am
question. i administer two pages on facebook. the usernames after facebook.com/… has the username plus a lot of numbers. how do i change the usernames to be exactly the name of the page.
how can i change the user names of each page separately so they will appear with just the names and not the names and all the numbers after.
Comment by tg1 — December 6, 2010 @ 2:40 am
Hi all, it is indeed a great feature to be able to remove the creator of a page on fb as sometimes, the creator may not be the owner. so it is right that we can remove the creator. But I suggest that there should be a feature to protect the creator who is also the owner where there will not be a chance when the own given rights of admin to someone else and then later realised that he/she no longer owns the page becuase the other person who was made the admin can remove the own as well. Please consider adding a feature to protect the creator/owner as well. Thank you!
Comment by James — December 7, 2010 @ 10:15 pm
i got same problem. i was creator admin and i made one other admin to control page. but he removed all other admin including me. Now my page is got hijacked. Isn't there any way to restore admin?
Comment by Bikesh K — December 18, 2010 @ 2:02 pm
Unfortunately they tried to solve a problem by causing another problem. As a creator of my own page, any admin can remove me and hijack my page. This is very unfortunate, there is no protection for original creators. Not all page creators are employees or clients of companies. Please facebook fix this new problem in a rational and logical fashion this time.
Comment by Edward — December 19, 2010 @ 6:02 pm
I was removed as admin of a page I created by other people who were co-admins without my knowing after I had an argument with them! Facebook should inform page owners about changes BEFORE these take place. As admin and original creator, I was not informed of anything and I only found out when I tried to edit the page and found I had no access. I was thinking of creating another page for my business, but now I'm not so sure and advise people to be wary.
Comment by Tancha — December 30, 2010 @ 7:50 pm
I to have been removed from the sole admin on my page. I am the creator and was led to believe I could not be removed. This has happened through no fault of my own so I think there must be a bug in the system. Please Facebook can you fix this for me. I have no control over my page and need to do updates very urgently indeed. Any help and suggestions would be so appreciated.
Comment by Carole Smart — January 1, 2011 @ 9:53 am
This is bitch! I trusted someone to be my co-admin of a fan page then I am confident to add him because I THOUGHT the creator will be permanently attached to that page. Facebook didn't even announced this! Now, my 330k+ likers are not in my hands anymore. I am even banned on that page! SH*T!
Comment by Lee — January 2, 2011 @ 10:49 am
I have mistakenly created multiple facebook accounts from my organizations original FB account, which I am the Page administrator. How do I delete these other FB mistake pages without deleting the original and all of it's fans and history????? …UGH…So frustrated and confused w/ FB!!!
Comment by Christina — January 9, 2011 @ 4:07 pm
LOL, well done!
Comment by Bruce — January 18, 2011 @ 7:45 am
there needs to be an undo button i was a creator and accidently removed my admin status, now someone else has become creator and removed everyone off admin including themselves, this must be an infringment of my intellectual rights, as it is my facebook page, that i have to log on to in the first place. please solve this problem as most facebook users are not buisnesses, it is a social network after all!!!
Comment by Sue — January 21, 2011 @ 11:19 am
I have a strange person as an Admin on my Thomas H. Gentry page.. When I click Remove the tag Remove disappears but he is still there… name Oh Mul Aeslehc…. He/She has a page though I don't want to click on the link that it presents… Help..
Comment by billyghawaii — February 8, 2011 @ 9:35 pm
After you click "Remove", you have to be sure to click the button to "Save Changes". THEN, that person should be removed as Page Admin.
Comment by Lynnette — February 28, 2011 @ 12:20 am
Join this page if you have been Deleted as an Admin of a Facebook Page YOU Created!! http://www.facebook.com/deletedadmin
Comment by DeletedAdmin — March 3, 2011 @ 3:35 pm
Same! I need help, i created a page and another admin deleted me. The page is now using all my photos which they do not have permission to use!
I need this page deleted! Help me please!
Comment by Juliet — March 16, 2011 @ 5:33 pm
I am owner of Thinktank.. facebook.com/Mr.Thinktank and I am creator but someone removed me from admin. facebook this is not good feature. why you want to destroy facebook through unpopular features. i am owner of http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thinktank/131134583... but some admin removed me. ah shit
Comment by ASIM — March 17, 2011 @ 10:39 am
Definitely Facebook needs to add a feature to protect the owner of the page! How can you outsource in confidence if you can be deleted at any time?
Any suggestions anyone?
Comment by @DetoxRevolution — March 19, 2011 @ 2:19 pm
The administrator of a page has added me as an administrator. What does this mean? How do I sign in and how do I receive notices via email regarding posts, etc?
Comment by kathryn — March 24, 2011 @ 7:32 pm
Its a very bad move !!
Page owner should never be kicked out. I created a page and I am now removed from the page i created, by one of the admins I made !!
Comment by K - — May 18, 2011 @ 12:23 pm
Hello
This seems to be a common problem as we have a page that someone has set up for our business, but we don't want it – we want the group page only which we did set up. People who join are getting confused about where to go. Please can someone help. There must be some way to do this. As someone has said it is our intellectual property no-one else's.
Comment by Jinny1 — May 22, 2011 @ 5:36 am
by mistake i deleted myself as an admin to my business page on facebook how do i add myself back ???
Comment by ula — June 16, 2011 @ 11:02 am
What if some one intentionally remove original Admin and take control over its page.
Comment by syconetgeek — June 18, 2011 @ 8:04 am
Kirsty – my organization did the age old mistake of losing admin access (ie the original and probably only admin is no longer with the company) is there anything you know of that we can do to gain admin rights? Maybe a way to proove to facebook that we are legitimately with the organization?
Comment by Shannon — August 2, 2011 @ 3:41 pm
Kirsty how to remove a page owner without knowing the password send reply to sr.sooraj2@gmail.com
Comment by Sooraj — September 7, 2011 @ 4:58 am
sir i m an admin of a group and i want to make some other one admin of my group but i fear that he will remove mefrom admin so what should i do plz tell me if u know
Comment by faheed — September 7, 2011 @ 2:02 pm
sir i m an admin of a group and i want to make some other one admin of my group but i fear that he will remove me from admin so what should i do plz tell me if u know
Comment by faheed — September 7, 2011 @ 2:02 pm
our former secretary of our ministry left took our pass words and did not give them to anyone else now she has complete control over our facebook page.need to get pass word and get her off
Comment by Toni Lingerfelt — September 9, 2011 @ 11:07 am
It is the great blunder and flaw of facebook. Facebook failed to protect rights of owner. i created a group and made admin and that admin deleted me and i am unable to do anything …. can anyone help me please how can i get my page back ????
Comment by Ali Sheikh — September 30, 2011 @ 4:44 am
same happened to me do tell me if anything can be happened to get back our page ….
Comment by Deleted owner — September 30, 2011 @ 4:46 am
I need to remove / delete a FB page how do I do it?
Comment by tom — September 30, 2011 @ 10:47 am
This just happened to me. Someone was added to our community page and she removed all of us other Admins. She claims she is now the owner and will do what she pleases.
Comment by Karen — September 30, 2011 @ 10:53 pm
I have by mistake remvoed all facebook administrators including my self while fixing few things… now i cannot even make changes to page.Help
Comment by faisal — October 7, 2011 @ 3:51 am
Someone I don't know has added me as an Admin to their page. How do I remove that page from my account? Also, how do I set security so no one can do that unless I agree?
Comment by Viv — October 14, 2011 @ 6:47 pm
I am an admin on a page with 5 other people A B C D E, 4 of them are owners A B C D. when i try to make the owners featured page owners I can make A B and C but can't add D. I thought there was a limit of 3 page owners but when i tried adding a fourth E it worked..so now for some reason only D cannot be added…there was no information as to why!!!
anyone can help? please
Comment by Abeer — October 22, 2011 @ 10:07 pm
Hi, did you ever get an answer to this question? We have the same problem. Person who created the page is no longer with our organization and we have one person left who can write on the wall through his page. Unfortunately, he's the Exec. Director and won't be writing on any walls anytime soon! Help! We do have other admins but none of us can write on the wall. Thanks!
Comment by Interstages, Inc — October 26, 2011 @ 1:05 pm
I sold my business. I have added the new admin and removed myself. That seems to have solved that.
But on my personal page under the employment editing, I can't seem to remove that business or me as it's owner from my personal profile.
Comment by Peggy Beckett — November 2, 2011 @ 8:34 pm
Admins can delete other admins…thats fine. BUT, page owner needs to confirm before other admin kick him from page. It's nonsense and stupidiest idea ever seen that any admin can remove page owner.
Page owner is page owner. He created that page…
Comment by CameFromDesert — December 12, 2011 @ 8:57 pm
facebook is so out of control with corporate greed i don't know why any of you all put up with this
Comment by @cashmoneykrew — December 20, 2011 @ 1:38 pm
i know add me
Comment by Hasan Ismail — December 27, 2011 @ 3:56 am
Look like there are many facebook questions, and I plan to ask one too but most of the question, no one can help with solution and this web help nothing too
Comment by CHing — January 3, 2012 @ 9:52 pm