Question

Today I need to create a new facebook app, since I need the app_id for the social plugins.
I created a facebook “page” account for my product’s website before, but I found that I can’t create a new app by using the “page” account:

Create Facebook App:
https://developers.facebook.com/apps

I have to login with normal user account in order to create a new app, so I am very confused now… Should I re-create a new user account and then create a facebook app? But what to do with my existing “page” account then?

I just want to bind everything together, hopefully one facebook account to bind the “app” and the “page”.

By the way, do users know who (account) created that App?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

You cannot create a Facebook application as a Facebook page. You cannot access any other application as a Facebook page. If you try to open an application when you’re acting as a FB page, you’ll be ask to switch back to your regular account.

A page identity is not an account. You cannot even login to FB as a page, you must login with your user account and then switch to page mode. It’s only an identity you can use to comment or post. They only introduced recently the messaging system for pages and it’s still very buggy.

You don’t need a new account. You can use the same account you used to create the FB page to create the FB app. Everything will be bound to your normal user account.

EDIT

Since you add a question to your post: you can create the application and use your user account as owner. Or you can create the app using a company name, so your user account will not be listed in the application.