Additionally, you can only create an account for one Facebook account per email. Since each account belongs to one person, we require everyone to use their authentic name on their account. This way, you always know who you're connecting with. Learn more about our name policies.
It's against the Facebook Community Standards to maintain more than one personal account. If you want to represent your business, organization, brand or product on Facebook, you can use your personal account to create and manage a Page.
As you are only allowed to have one account, a phone number or email address can only be linked to one account. If you manage to link the same one to a new profile, it will be removed from the old one. You can log in to an account using the phone number, email address or username.
You can create up to 4 additional Facebook profiles under your account. These profiles can represent different things about you like your interests or communities you belong to.
Someone who wants to keep a wider gap between their different circles (e.g. Work, Family, Friends, Dating) having a different account for each (I believe you can separate out various connections on most social media platforms into some form of group/circle if you want but some people may prefer more of an air gap.)
Note: If you don't have a mobile phone number, you can create an account with your email instead. Make sure you are logged out of any existing accounts before trying to create an account. Was this helpful?
Follow the on-screen instructions and enter your first and last name, date of birth and gender. Enter your mobile phone number, or tap Use your email address. Create a password you'll remember. Tap Sign Up.
You can update privacy settings for your profiles at any time. Keep in mind: You can update things like ads or security in your Facebook account settings. People may be able to tell which profiles are yours based on public information on Facebook like your name, profile picture and more.
Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook. Click See all profiles. Click Switch accounts. Click the account you want to switch to, or click Log into another account if you'd like to log in as someone new.
If you look up someone's profile or they look up yours, none is the wiser. Facebook is very clear on the matter: “Facebook users cannot track who has viewed their personal homepage.
Keep in mind: Fake accounts (an account where someone is pretending to be something or someone that doesn't exist) go against our Community Standards, and Facebook can remove them. If there are several people who manage a Page, each person who manages the Page must have a profile based on their authentic identity.
While creating a fake account on social media in itself usually isn't a crime, what the person does with the account might be. Most fake accounts are created for parody and satire. That is not illegal in U.S. law.
Make sure that your name follows our guidelines. Try signing up again at facebook.com. If you're still having trouble signing up or if you think your name was rejected by mistake, let us know.
The social networking website Facebook has maintained the real-name system policy for user profiles. According to Facebook, the real-name policy stems from the position "that way, you always know who you're connecting with.
Facebook doesn't let people track who views their profile. Third-party apps also can't provide this functionality. If you come across an app that claims to offer this ability, please report the app.
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