How To Make Someone An “Admin” – Facebook Fan Page

October 23rd, 2009 Robert Holland Leave a comment Go to comments
This entry is part 9 of 24 in Facebook Fan Page Series

FaceBook-LogoThis is really simple, and something I’ve written about before.  However, it’s a question that comes up a lot and rightly so I suppose.

People are wanting to make others an admin to their Facebook Fan Page – that’s understandable – and need to know how to do it!  That’s why I’m writing this quick “How To”.  It’s going to be quick because… well… making someone an admin is simple.

Here’s how to make somene an “Admin” on your Facebook Fan Page:

1) The person you want to make an admin must first be a “fan” of your Facebook Fan Page.  This is always the first thing overlooked by people.  They don’t realize that in order to be an admin, you must first be a “fan” – which makes sense I suppose.  You probably don’t want “non-fans” to be admins of anything you’re associated with – right?

2) Now to down to your “fan box” on your Facebook Fan Page and click the “See All” link.  Your fan box is the box in the bottom left portion of your page where you see pictures of all your fans.  Go ahead and click the “See All” link.

3) Once you click the “See All” link, a new box will appear called “View Fans”.  This will be a screen that has your “fans” images on the left, and now look to the right.  You will see the button called “Make Admin”.  All you have to do is scroll through your list of fans until you find the person you want to make “admin”, and then simply click “Make Admin” – and that’s it!

Once you’ve clicked “Make Admin”, that person will receive an email, or message update on their Facebook Profile, that they’ve been added as an admin to your Facebook Fan Page.

*** Notes ***

First, this is also how you boot people from your Facebook Fan Page.  If you look to the right of your “Make Admin” button, you’ll notice the “x”.  If you press the “x” you’ll remove that person from your Fan Page all together.

Second, an “Admin” of a Facebook Fan Page has 100% control over design, functionality, assigning new admins, and booting people from your Facebook Fan Page.  So what I’m saying is, make sure you are “sure” you want that person to beyour “admin” on your Facebook Fan Page.




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  1. Ellen Jane Hayward
    January 24th, 2010 at 08:37 | #1
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    Hey,
    I was wondering what you do if you're looking to make a specific person an admin? I noticed that the list starts with the most recently mad fan, but the person I want to make an admin was my second or third fan, and I have 19,100 fans.
    Thanks if you can help!

    • Robert Holland
      January 24th, 2010 at 12:43 | #2
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      Hi Ellen – thanks so much for commenting! The first thing to note here is that you can only make someone an admin to your page who is a "Friend" of yours on Facebook. So if the person you want to make "admin" isn't already a Facebook friend, then you need to send them a "friend invite" for them to accept.

      Next, here's how you can easily find the person you are looking for amongst your 19,100 fans:

      1) Click "edit page" directly under your Facebook Fan Page profile picture

      2) Once you click "edit page" you are now looking at your Facebook Fan Page dashboard > look to the right hand column and scroll down until you find the "Admins" section.

      3) Once your find the "Admins" section, you'll see an "ADD" link > go ahead and click the "ADD" link

      4) After you click the "ADD" link a new window will pop up of all of your Facebook friends – you can then search by name for the person you are looking for > click there image (you'll see a white check mark appear)

      5) After you've selected the person you want to make admin, then click the "Add Admins" button at the bottom of that window

      That's it! You can select as many of your Facebook friends as you like to admin your Facebook Fan Page – there is no limit.

      Hope that helps!

      I think I'm going to write an article that explains this as well because I'm sure other people out there have the same quesiton.

      Thanks again Ellen!

      P.S. Can I check out your Facebook Fan Page? (post a link if you'd like)

      • Pablo
        February 17th, 2010 at 02:26 | #3
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        I actually tried scrolling through 4,000 fans to make someone an admin… thank you for showing me the quick way! If only FB would put a "find" box in that fans window, it would be so much easier.

  2. christina
    February 15th, 2010 at 21:40 | #5
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    I have a question about Facebook fan pages. I was made an administrator on a fan page. But I'm not sure how to post a status update for the fan page. Whenever I go to the page and post an update, it posts as me instead of as the object of the fan. Can you help?

    • @SocialMedia_SEO
      February 15th, 2010 at 22:14 | #6
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      Hi Christina – thanks so much for posting your question! All admins, when posting on the Facebook Fan Page of which they've been made admin, will also show as the fan page is posting.

      If you are having a problem where your Facebook personal profile is showing when you try to post to the fan page, then I'm thinking you were not successfully added as an admin. Please confirm with the Fan Page owners that they have indeed made the correct profile (your Facebook profile) the admin…

      let me know how it goes – and thanks so much again!

  3. Nicolette
    March 6th, 2010 at 22:20 | #7
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    hi, if i make someone else and admin of my facebook group will i still be one? x
    thanks :)

    • @SocialMedia_SEO
      March 7th, 2010 at 18:21 | #8
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      Hi Nicolette – yes, you will still remain "admin" even though you make someone else admin. There is no limit to the number of "admins" a Facebook Fan Page can have.

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