Facebook forcing me to sign up

[Tonearm]

I don't have a personal FB account so I opened what was called a Facebook Business Account in order to manage and run ads for my company's FB page. I recently received an email from FB telling me that I have to open a personal FB account in order to continue having a company page or ads account. Has anyone else been hit with this or does everyone here really have a personal FB account?

[not2easy]

You can have a "personal" account with any information you want to give them, any name so long as it has an active email acct. No biggie.

[Tonearm]

FB, you win apparently.

[not2easy]

If it helps any, you still have the account whether you fill in all the requested info or not. They are still asking me where I went to school, when is my birthday, where I was born and such. I ignore it. I am not about to share such personal information unless I need a loan (and think no one should).

[RhinoFish]

Yep, they will do that.

They also force you to friend the master admin for any Ads Manager accounts you want access to. Does Zuckerberg have to friend every UPS and FedEx driver who delivers anything to FB, that's what I want in return, to balance out the #*$!ty requirement where we all have to personally friend CEOs who may not even know us, or our companies. Flat Earth Society, but for Biz Org charts.

Let me save you some time on another front... If you don't use Chrome, administering FB ads in any other browser is like climbing into a can of beans, with a rattlesnake.

[Hoople]

You can set the privacy on all of your personal account's attributes to 'close friends only' and be isolated from the facebook collective.

An account can exist with no close friends, so any setting other than public will do <G> Then only facebook corporate employees would have the ability to view all of your details.