For quite some time, Facebook took criticism from corporate brands for not allowing creators of a company Facebook page to transfer ownership of the page. The creator of a Facebook page could never be removed, which caused plenty of frustration. If an agency created a page for a brand, the agency would always be an admin on the account. If a company employee created the page, he or she would always be on the account. Imagine if your employee took a new job with a competitor and remained an irremovable admin on your Facebook page?
This month, Facebook has quietly allowed any page admin to remove the page creator. It solves a lot of problems for agencies that build pages for clients, but here is a word of caution. The page creator can be removed by any admin without approval. Be extra careful when you select people to be an admin on your company Facebook page, because any admin could potentially hijack the page by removing all other admins.
This change is a long time coming. It would be better if the page creator had to approve the removal, but at least there is now a solution to an old problem of Facebook page admin management.
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