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Facebook is a great platform to connect with friends, meet new people, and share information. Sometimes, you might come across individuals who share content that isn’t suitable for your page or that might be harmful to other Facebook users.

Fortunately, you don’t have to tolerate online trolls and problematic users on your page. Facebook has settings that allow you to remove such individuals from your page. In this article, we’ll show you how to ban a profile from your Facebook page.

How to Ban a Profile From Your Facebook Page

Running a Facebook page has many benefits. Unfortunately, you might come across users who aren’t engaging with your profile appropriately. If you want to ban someone directly from your Facebook page settings, you can do just that. Here's how:

  1. Open Facebook and head to your Facebook page.
  2. In the menu, head to Settings.
    Menu on Facebook page
  3. Click Privacy.
    Blocking options on a Facebook page.
  4. Select Blocking.
  5. Under Manage Blocking, head to Block Users and click Edit.
  6. Click Add users to blocked list or select Add followers to blocked list.
    Adding users to your blocked list
  7. Search for the user, then click Block next to their name.
    Searching through Facebook users
  8. Select one of the banning options provided, then tap on Confirm.
    Banning a user from a Facebook page

How to Ban Someone From Their Post on Your Facebook Page

To ban a profile from a post on your page, or a post that your page has been tagged on, follow these steps:

  1. Open your page and head to Mentions.
    Mentions section on Facebook page
  2. Hover over the user’s profile in their post.
  3. Click the three-dot icon, then tap Block.
    Banning a profile from a post on a page
  4. Choose whether you simply want to ban the profile or whether you want to ban the profile along with any new profiles they might create.
    Banning a profile from a Facebook page
  5. Click Confirm.

A Facebook page is better than a personal profile for branding, but you still want to make sure that you manage it correctly.

Manage Your Facebook Page

Pages on Facebook are a popular way for individuals and businesses to grow their online presence and engage audiences. Even though engaging with Facebook users can be beneficial to you, moderation is still an important part of ensuring the content on your page is appropriate.