One person, four profiles: Facebook now offers the possibility for a user to have up to four personal profiles to avoid mixing up rags and napkins.
Facebook now allows create up to 4 different profiles (in the form “@name”) for a single account. You go from one to the other without having to identify yourself each time. It is not a question of becoming someone else: these profiles are linked to the conditions of use of the social network, which prohibit modifying one’s age or location. On the other hand, this function could prove practical for separating personal relationships from professional ones, for example.
More flexibility in using Facebook
With this new tool, Facebook users will be able to more easily manage what they share with this or that community based on the selected profile. The social network presents each alias with its own and personalized feed. This can be one for family, one for friends (two groups that don’t necessarily mix), one for work, one for a community of interest…
The profiles each have specific privacy and notification settings, which can become a headache to manage but at the same time, we gain granularity and flexibility. Important detail: the main Facebook account will not reveal the user’s different profiles.
The function, tested since July, has some teething flaws. Messaging for new aliases will only work on the web version of Facebook, and in the Facebook app. Messenger support will arrive in the coming months. This principle of profiles is not new at Meta: it was successfully introduced on Instagram.
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