Facebook's Rules for Multiple Accounts: What the Terms and Community Standards Say

Does Facebook allow more than one account per person? #

Not for personal accounts. According to Meta's Terms of Service (effective 1 January 2025, read 3 October 2026), people must use the name they go by in everyday life, give accurate information, create only one account, their own, and use it for personal purposes.

The Community Standards say the same thing from the enforcement side. In the Authentic Identity Representation standard (page updated 12 September 2026), Facebook says people must open a single account under the everyday name they use. The same page lists "Create or maintain multiple Facebook accounts" among the behaviours where Facebook says it will seek further information before taking action that ranges from a temporary restriction to permanent disabling.

Facebook's Help Center adds a practical point: it cannot merge accounts, since holding more than one personal account conflicts with the Community Standards.

What do the rules say, line by line? #

What is allowed instead: Pages, access and test users #

Facebook's own tools cover the legitimate reasons people reach for a second account:

• A brand, shop or project. Use a Page. Facebook's Help Center says Pages are for businesses, brands, organisations and public figures.
• Teammates. Give each person access to the Page, as Facebook access or task access, instead of a shared login. See Page roles and team access, and for agencies how to manage client ad accounts.
• Interests or communities. Facebook once offered additional profiles for this. Its Help Center says they can no longer be created and that existing ones are not affected.
• Testing an app. Test users in Meta for Developers can be created only by app administrators or developers, are limited to 10 per app, and cannot interact with real Facebook users.

On Facebook, authorised access is the kind Facebook itself grants through Page access and its business tools, while its Terms tell people not to share passwords.

What happens when the rules are broken? #

How do you stay inside the rules? #

1. Keep one personal account per person, in the name you use day to day.
2. Put brands, shops and projects on a Page.
3. Give teammates Page access or task access. Never share a password, and never ask a client for one.
4. Do not exchange accounts or admin roles, and do not create accounts or Pages in quick succession.
5. Do not script account access unless Facebook has authorised the route.
6. Turn on two-factor authentication and review Where you're logged in for your own account.
7. If something goes wrong, use Facebook's appeal and recovery pages instead of starting again.

What if you already have two accounts, or one was disabled? #

• Two accounts. Facebook says it cannot merge them. The Help Center suggests downloading what you want from the account you will not keep, adding the account you keep as an admin of any Pages or groups you manage, and then deleting the duplicate.
• A disabled account. Use the appeal route in why Facebook keeps logging you out or asks for checks. A new account is not a substitute: the Terms list a previous disablement among the reasons someone cannot use Facebook, and Account Integrity covers accounts created to get round an earlier removal.
• Sharing one computer. Several people can each be signed in with their own account; see logging in to two Facebook accounts on one computer.

More in the Facebook guides.

Where ADSSPEED fits #

ADSSPEED manages many browser profiles from one desktop app on Windows and macOS, each with its own cookies, local data and browser settings and, if you set one, a proxy of its own. It is a way to organise the accounts you are entitled to run, such as your own account and the Pages you are given access to, and it does not change what Facebook's rules allow. See what a browser profile is. Use it only for accounts you own or are authorised to manage. ADSSPEED is not affiliated with Facebook.