Many thanks to Deirdre Reid for noting in the comments to Want to transfer ownership of your Facebook page? Good luck! that Facebook has finally made it possible for an administrator to delete the original owner of a Page. (This news via All Facebook.) It seems like a small thing, but people leave organizations all the time, and if you happened to have an ex-employee or intern set up your Facebook page, chances are good that they “own” it.
Up until now, there has been no way to get the ownership back from them. People have been railing about this for more than a year, so it’s nice to see Facebook finally wake up and do something. To delete an admin, just go to “Edit Page” on the left side of the page and then scroll down to the “Admins” area on the right.
Of course, Facebook seems to have evolved to a point where it can’t seem to do anything quite right. As a number of people point out on the All Facebook post, the way Facebook has implemented the solution makes it possible for any administrator to delete the owner and take over ownership. Also not an ideal situation. So many other applications have the concept of a “super” administrator that helps to address just this sort of issue. Apparently Facebook has not tuned in to this idea.
Well, two steps forward, one step back.
Jeff
Is it possible for a non-admin to discover who the current owner of a page is for the purposes of contacting them?
Gerard – If it is, I’m not aware of it, but Facebook admin is definitely not an area in which I am an expert. Perhaps someone subscribed to the comments here knows. – Jeff
I’m also trying to find out who the administrator is of a business page as the person who was administering it can no longer get in and no one know why or why can. There seems to be no way to contact Fb directly. Any more insights?
Just read the 1st post of my blog … I have the solution ….
I have a headache just trying to think of what I want to do on facebook administration pages , like standing in Maplins looking for a specific audio cable.. mind just goes blank and…oh….. what am I trying to do…..now….
Our non-profit has an old page and the Admin is long gone. Not even sure who she is, but she hasn’t been in the organization for years. There is now a new page that we want to use solely, and we want to delete the old page but she was the only Admin and we otherwise have zero access. Anyone know how we can delete that old page w/o access? Thanks!
One step forward, five steps back. Means that page owners dont know about this, and any admin can delete page owner. Thats stupidiest idea I ever seen. Page owner is page owner, he created that page and if he want to leave then he need to transfer ownershit to other admin. It’s very stupid that any admin can kick you from your own page. At least page owner need to confirm this before other admin kick him…that will be fine.