Facebook now allows you to create up to four additional accounts
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:11 am
Facebook now allows you to create up to four additional accounts. This should help separate the different aspects of your lives.
Meta announced that Facebook users can now create multiple profiles . The company lets you add an @handle to up to four additional personal profiles linked to your main account. Once you create a new handle, you don't need to log out and back in to switch between them. Facebook began testing this feature in July.
Facebook now allows you to create up to four additional accounts
The giant suggests profiles for your personal life, your professional life, and your interests or communities that you might want to separate from your main account. “Whether you’re new to Facebook or a longtime user, you might want to keep your personal and professional relationships separate, or you might want to keep one profile tied to a community you’re a part of and another profile just for your friends,” Meta wrote in its announcement. “Creating multiple personal profiles makes it easy to organize who you share with and what you see across different aspects of your life.”
Meta explains that each profile has its own news feed with relevant content based solely on that profile's interests. The list of mobile number database says Instagram's success with a similar feature inspired this initiative, and beta testing of the feature taught Facebook that many users appreciate a clearer organization of their friends, groups, and interests "to find the audience they believe is most relevant."
This should help separate the different aspects of your lives.
Each new profile will start with Facebook's default privacy and notification settings, which you can manually change. Additionally, your main Facebook account won't show that you have additional profiles.
This feature also has some restrictions. First, Dating, Marketplace, Professional Mode, and Payments won't be available on your secondary profiles at launch. Additionally, messaging for these profiles will only be available on the Facebook app and web. Additional profiles in Messenger will arrive "in the coming months." Finally, only eligible adult accounts can create new profiles. And remember, these new profiles are still subject to Facebook's user guidelines, including those regarding age and location.
The deployment of this feature is being done gradually and should last several months.
Meta announced that Facebook users can now create multiple profiles . The company lets you add an @handle to up to four additional personal profiles linked to your main account. Once you create a new handle, you don't need to log out and back in to switch between them. Facebook began testing this feature in July.
Facebook now allows you to create up to four additional accounts
The giant suggests profiles for your personal life, your professional life, and your interests or communities that you might want to separate from your main account. “Whether you’re new to Facebook or a longtime user, you might want to keep your personal and professional relationships separate, or you might want to keep one profile tied to a community you’re a part of and another profile just for your friends,” Meta wrote in its announcement. “Creating multiple personal profiles makes it easy to organize who you share with and what you see across different aspects of your life.”
Meta explains that each profile has its own news feed with relevant content based solely on that profile's interests. The list of mobile number database says Instagram's success with a similar feature inspired this initiative, and beta testing of the feature taught Facebook that many users appreciate a clearer organization of their friends, groups, and interests "to find the audience they believe is most relevant."
This should help separate the different aspects of your lives.
Each new profile will start with Facebook's default privacy and notification settings, which you can manually change. Additionally, your main Facebook account won't show that you have additional profiles.
This feature also has some restrictions. First, Dating, Marketplace, Professional Mode, and Payments won't be available on your secondary profiles at launch. Additionally, messaging for these profiles will only be available on the Facebook app and web. Additional profiles in Messenger will arrive "in the coming months." Finally, only eligible adult accounts can create new profiles. And remember, these new profiles are still subject to Facebook's user guidelines, including those regarding age and location.
The deployment of this feature is being done gradually and should last several months.