How to Ban Someone From A Facebook Business Page Who Hasn’t Liked It
How To Ban Any User From Your Facebook Business Page (UPDATED FOR 2024)
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes
Accessing Your Facebook Business Profile
How to Access Facebook Blocking Tools?
Over the years, Facebook has made its platform easier to use and navigate — at least in some ways. Anyone who regularly uses the complex back-end of Facebook knows the settings seem to change daily. Sometimes these changes are for the better, other times… not so much.
When it comes to eliminating those “trolls” who frequent your Facebook page, spread misinformation, and live in your comments section, Meta has made it easier than ever to ban these individuals.
Step 1: Switch Into Your Facebook Business Page
To manage your page’s blocking and overall settings, you must switch into your Facebook business page (you might currently be logged in as a different page or just your personal profile):
Step 2: Access & Manage Your Facebook Page’s Blocking & Ban Settings
In the back-end settings of your Facebook business page, find the “Blocking” tab in the left-hand sidebar. Click on this tab to manage blocking settings, allowing you to block or ban users and pages:
- Select “Edit” next to “Block Users” to look up and ban those “trolls.”
- Want to block another business page, like a competitor or a specific influencer? You can also block or ban other business pages.
You can then choose if you want to “add followers to your blocked list” or “add users to a blocked list,” which eliminates the old issue of not being able to block someone from your page if they haven’t liked it yet.
Step 3: Look Up Your “Troll” or Specific User and… BLOCK!
Put on your detective hat! Search for the users causing trouble on your Facebook business page and click “Block.”
Once you’ve found the user to block, you’ll see the option to ban the single user or any new profiles they may create.
Step 4: The User is Now Banned!
You might be wondering, “Okay, so I blocked the troll. What does that mean? Can they still see my content?”
The answer is NO. Once the user is on your blocked list, they can’t comment, engage, or even find your page. Even if they type or paste the URL of your page directly into their browser, they won’t be able to access it. We tested this with our content writer to be sure! See below:
(That reminds me… I should probably remove Seth from our blocked list. Find out how to do that in the next step!)
Step 5: Can You Make Amends?
There will always be haters online. In rare cases, though, you might want to make amends and “hug it out.” So then the question becomes, “How do I unblock someone from my Facebook Business Page?”
To remove someone from your block list, go back to the bottom of “Step 2.”
When presented with the option to block a user or page, select “See Your Blocked List,” find the user you want to release from ‘Facebook Jail,’ and click “Unblock.”
That’s all there is to it!
Oh, How Far We’ve Come…
If you’re interested in seeing how far Facebook has come in this regard, keep reading to explore the archaic nuances the platform has made (and sometimes still does). Some key elements of the older strategy still work. For instance, if you’re having trouble finding the person you want to ban, try copying and pasting their unique profile ID or slug directly into your user search to narrow it down.
Read on for more in-depth insights…
Option 1: The Easy Way to Ban Users
Option 2: The Complicated Way to Ban Users
It’s Time to Silence That Super Annoying Troll – Once & For All!
Social media has given everyone a voice, but it has also given everyone the opportunity to troll, spam and simply go into business for themselves all over your organization’s timeline. Facebook Business isn’t perfect, obviously, so these nefarious folks have found a way (or just stumbled into a way) to bypass the simple “Ban a Person” function and spam up your comments section on the daily.
But no more! Be gone, Troll!
Here is your step-by-step guide to blocking a person from a Facebook Business page who hasn’t liked it in 2020.
Strategy 1: The Easier, Updated Version
- Log into your Facebook Business page
- Click Page Settings on the left, at the bottom
- Head to the People & Others Pages tab
- Hit the drop-down menu & select “Banned People & Pages.”
- Hit the +Ban A Person button.
- Take their vanity URL aka whatever their unique FB profile URL is, put it in the search & it should pop up with their name & stupid, ugly photo; only take the numbers & letters after the slash, as shown below:
- Smash that Save button & they should be gone (it may take a minute or so to kick in, however)
Note: The person will be able to see the page still, but they can’t like things, comment or spread hate.
Strategy 2: The Previous, More Complicated Version
- Open Facebook in your Chrome browser & go to your business/organization’s page
- Do the same in another tab
- Find the profile of the person who has been spamming your page & click on them
- Once the page loads, right-click & hit “View Page Source”
- Do a command+search for “entity_ID” in the source code & copy the code that follows immediately after; it should look something like “100007362189555”
- Go to the other Facebook tab you have open
- Click “Settings” in the top right corner
- Click “People and other Pages”
- Once here, go to the URL bar, double-click it & then replace “www.” with “m.,” so the URL goes from – https://www.facebook.com/YourSuperCoolBusiness/settings/?tab=people_and_other_pages to https://m.facebook.com/YourSuperCoolBusiness/settings/?tab=people_and_other_pages (this opens the page in a mobile version, necessary for the next steps)
- Go to the first person on the list, hover over the “Ban” button, right-click & select “Inspect Element”
- Right-click the blue box of code highlighted by the browser & select “Edit as HTML”
- Find the section where it says “"userID":"0000000000"” then highlight the numbers & paste the User ID code from that dastardly spammer
- Click outside of the source code box (this is critical) & then close out of the inspect element box
- Click “Ban”
- Assure Facebook that you want to “Ban” that person (note: it’s going to look like you’re banning an innocent person, but you shouldn’t be if you did it correctly)
- Refresh the page to make sure the innocent person you banned is still there
- Click the blue bar at the top that says “People Who Like This Page” & go to “Banned People & Pages”
- Make sure the spammer person is there & you’re good!
The major “hack” here is tricking the Facebook Business platform into thinking this person has already liked your page. Yes, you could just click “Ban A Person” from the “People And Other Pages” dialogue box, but we’re guessing you already crossed that off your list! We’ve found that, because of specific privacy rights, people aren’t always searchable in these boxes – after all, what troll wants to be held accountable for what they say on the Internet?
Isn’t This “Anti-Social Media?”
No. We’re not much for stifling free speech, but when there’s a troll out there who exists for the sole purpose of spreading misinformation or cursing at random digital passers-by? Nope. Not on our watch. Don’t sit at the table if you’re bringing nothing of value to it.
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