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Can You Change the Name of Your Facebook Page? Yes & No

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Can You Change the Name of Your Facebook Page? Yes & No

Whoa! It seems Facebook has very quietlyrolled out the ability to change your Facebook Fan Page (business page) name. Well, sort of ... it looks like right now it's only in certain cases (more on that in a minute.)

It has  always been the case that once you'd created & named your page, that was it. Forever & ever amen. No changes for you.  Misspell your business name? Too bad.  Undergo a merger or acquistion? Tough.  Of course, you could always delete that page & create another -- but that isn't helpful when you've already accumulated fans (er, eh... "likers") because there's no way to migrate fans from one page to another. 

So, why wouldn't Facebook let you change the name of your fan page? Well, imagine joining a page for "Save Adorable Kittens"  only to have the Facebook page admin change the name to "Joe's Deathmetal Extravaganza!" -- that probably wouldn't go over so well. Still, it seems like there should be some sort of process for changing or rearranging a page name, right?

Well -- now there sorta is. If the page in question has under 100 fans. If so, making the change is simple enough: navigate to your "edit page" screen. Click on "basic information" and you will see that there is now an editable field next to name.

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And if you have too many fans? Well -- you'll see no editable text field. I guess the reasoning here is somewhat fair -- if you are just getting started with your page or business, you may end up needed to alter the name. However, once you have hundreds or thousands of fans -- it would be unfair to change the name to something vastly different.

Hey, at least it's something!

 

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