How to Create Multiple Facebook Accounts (2024)

What Does Facebook Say About Multiple Accounting?

To start with, your personal accounts are expected to carry your real identity. Facebook only allows you to manage a single personal account. Up until recently, there is no way to create more profiles —only pages. However, it has recently added support for creating 4 additional profiles which, according to them, can help you organize and represent different aspects of your life and interests.

However, these 4 accounts are linked to your main profile. Interestingly, both the main profile and 4 additional profiles are subject to the Facebook community standard and when you go against it, you lose your account. When you lose access to your account, you lose access to all of the profiles associated with the account.

You are also allowed to own only one business account. For each business account, Facebook allows a user to manage up to 25 ad accounts. Managing more than this number is a violation of Facebook’s advertising policy and that will lead to you losing the accounts you already have rights to. Some business reasons will make you want to manage more than these numbers and that is where you need to get ready for the roller coaster of going against community standards and ad policy.

How Does Facebook Identify Your Multiple Accounts

Facebook marketers of the olden days had it better and easier. Then, Facebook uses only your IP address, cookie, and the details you provide to track you. It is important you know that the idea behind the much-acclaimed saying that you will get blocked when you manage more than one account with an IP address is wrong. This is because, in many homes, multiple people access Facebook using the same WIFI which uses a single IP address.

Generally, managing a few accounts less than 4 is safe. Facebook knows all of the accounts share the same IP address and thus, are being managed from the same location or even room. However, this is not a violation. It still needs more details to be able to ascertain whether the accounts are managed from the same device or not which is a better pointer of multiple accounting. For this, it uses cookies. Cookies are small pieces of text saved in web browsers or client software by web services including Facebook. If two accounts share the same cookie, you can be 100 percent sure they are being managed from the same device.

What Facebook marketers of the past did was find a way to mask their real IP address and get multiple IPs to manage their multiple accounts and also not mix cookies together. For the IP side of things, they use proxies or VPNs which are servers that provide you alternate IPs. Cookies on their part, are easy to deal with as you can delete them with a single click. What these marketers did back then was clear cookies or use cookie editors and dynamically switch cookies based on the account they were managing at the time.

Things are a little different now and as such, using proxies and deleting/switching cookies won’t help you. Aside from getting things from the IP and cookie side of things, there is a new tracking method that depends on intelligently collecting details of your device, browser, and hardware to generate a unique fingerprint known as a browser fingerprint. Surprisingly, these tiny bits of information such as your browser type, OS details, timezone, canvas fingerprint, audio fingerprint, and timezone, among others can help generate a unique fingerprint that can be used for identifying you.

Its uniqueness can be as accurate as 99.5%, making it a credible identification option. Unfortunately, it is not easy to game and you don’t even know the information and what they have about you. This method, browser fingerprinting is what Facebook and other big web services are using now to detect multiple accounts and block them efficiently.

How to Effectively Create Multiple Facebook Accounts

To create multiple Facebook accounts without getting them linked requires you to thoughtfully plan things through. As I mentioned earlier, Facebook uses your device's IP address, browser cookie, and device fingerprint to identify you. You will need to make these 3 as unique as possible to avoid getting your accounts linked. It is also important you don’t use the same personal and contact information for multiple accounts as those can also be used to link your account together and block them.

If you need multiple accounts for business reasons, then you need multiple payment methods and this is even tricky. For multiple accounting, you need different user personas with different names and contact addresses. Now, your payment method will have to match the contact and personal details of the accounts you create. Let's see how to get all of these right.

• Generate Multiple User Personas and Emails

You wouldn’t want to create 50 Facebook accounts with the same name and from the same location as your accounts will get blocked in no time even with other details gotten right. Instead, you should create a full-fledged user persona with different contact details. You can create different user persona from your head. But this is not scalable especially if you need to create a lot as it will take much of your time. Instead, you can use a fake name generator also known as a user persona generator. The one I use often is the FakeNameGenerator.com.

Using this tool, you are able to create as many fake user personal and contact addresses that do not even exist in the first place. The tool is configurable, allowing you to customize it to give you the result you want. I recommend you keep a spreadsheet so that you can keep track of the details of each account.

With your user persona generated, I recommend you go ahead and create emails for each user. Unlike in the case of Facebook, things are a little relaxed when it comes to emails. Email providers such as Gmail allow you to create many emails linked to the same phone number. There is no publicly recommended limit as long as you stick to their term of service. But you can have multiple numbers and have multiple Gmail emails and emails from other providers linked to the phone numbers. Make sure you also keep the login details of each of the email addresses associated with each of the user persona — on the same row so you don’t mix things up.

• Get Multiple Payment Details

Are you aware that you can use the same payment method i.e., one credit card to pay for ads across your multiple ad accounts provided they are linked to the same business account? Well, that is not the case when you manage multiple accounts in a stealth mode. You will need multiple payment details too. Facebook does support multiple payment methods. According to the information on their acceptable payment method page, you can pay using either a credit or debit card, PayPal, Bank account, and some other local payment methods depending on your country. The page has a comprehensive list of supported payment methods for each country.

You should create multiple payment methods and use virtual cards that will match the account holder's name so you are allowed to use them. For the payment method type, everything here is up to you as you have a lot of options but also have room to make more mistakes. So, make sure you make decisions that will make your accounts unlinked and less suspicious.

• You Need High-Quality Residential and Mobile Proxies

To mask your IP address and get alternative IPs, signally Facebook that your multiple accounts are being managed from multiple devices, you need multiple IP addresses. In the past, you can get away with using cheap datacenter proxies or even VPNs. This is no longer the case. You need to use high-quality proxies. Except you need multiple accounts for automation, I wouldn’t advise you to use rotating proxies. You should instead, go for static residential or mobile proxies.

Mobile proxies will give your requests a mobile feel or footprint which is an added layer of protection. However, it can be really expensive compared to residential proxies that also work. For most, using residential proxies will do. Some of the key players with undetectable static residential proxies include Bright Data, Smartproxy, and Proxy-Seller. A static residential proxy will cost you anything between $3 to $5 per IP.

If you have a really large account farm, you can manage up to 2 accounts with one IP address without getting detected and banned.

• Use an Antidetect Browser Instead of a Regular Browser

Regular browsers be it Chrome, Firefox, or any other one based on the engines used by Chrome or Firefox are tracking mines and fingerprint mining enablers. Instead, you should opt for an anti-detect browser. An anti-detect browser helps you deal with two main tracking issues — cookie and browser fingerprint. These are browsers developed to solve the browser fingerprinting problem. They allow you to create multiple browser profiles, each of the browser profiles you create will have its own browser fingerprint and browser environment such as cookies, local storage, and session storage.

Each browser profile created should be assigned to one Facebook account. So, if you need to manage 20 accounts, you will have to create 20 browser profiles. For each profile, you should assign a proxy you purchased earlier so each browser profile will have its own unique IP address. As mentioned earlier, you could pair two accounts to share the same IP address and as such, you can set two browser profiles to share the same IP address.

By configuring a browser profile to use a proxy, you have effectively turned it into a separate device, having its own browser environment (fingerprint and cookie) and IP address. This will make it appear to Facebook as if you are using a different device. Antidetect browsers are configurable, allowing you to configure the browser fingerprint details such as the operating system, Browser user agent and version, time zone, and even more. So, you can have multiple browser fingerprints that suggest you are using a Windows computer in one account, and the other shows you are accessing it via Firefox on a Linux computer.

However, I will advise against excessive tweaking of browser fingerprints. Except you know what you are doing, do not tweak the browser fingerprint instead, use the one provided by your anti-detect browser. Many antidetect browsers have a database of browser fingerprints that are legit and correct, enough to hide you in the crowd and make you less unique. In trying to tweak your Browder fingerprint, you can become unique, which makes it easier for Facebook to track your activities.

As per our recommendation of a browser fingerprint for Facebook multiple account management, Multilogin is the obvious choice and what the enterprises use. However, it costs a lot and could even make your project non-profitable. If you are on a tight budget, there are cheaper alternatives that can still get the job done for you. The likes of GoLogin and Dolphin Anty are credible but cheaper alternatives to Multilogin. Gologin even has a free tier you can try and use to get used to the concept of an antidetect browser.

How to Automate Multiple Facebook Account Creation

Creating a few Facebook accounts manually is possible. But when you need to create many of them, especially in the hundreds, you will run into scalability problems and the chances of mixing things up becomes high. In this case, the best thing for you is to automate the process. Interestingly, antidetect browsers do have support for automation, allowing you to create multiple accounts faster.

However, they are not suited for such a process. If you need to create multiple Facebook accounts efficiently with a lower risk of getting detected and your multiple accounts banned, then you need to be a PVA Creator. A PVA creator allows you to automate bulk account creation on popular web services such as Facebook. Aside from creating accounts, you can also use it to manage and run these accounts. Just like Antidetect browsers, PVA creators will cost you money and require proxies too.

I will advise you to create the accounts using PVA Creator and then you manage the accounts using anti-detect browsers. Unlike managing the accounts on an antidetect browser you need static IPs per account, creating accounts in bulk using PVA creators requires rotating residential proxies.

Managing Multiple Facebook Accounts

Successfully creating multiple accounts on Facebook is just one side of the story. The other side is managing it without getting blocked. Facebook has a strict anti-spam system that detects multiple accounts even after being created. It is common for those to have multiple accounts to lose some of them or even all of them without doing things during Facebook algorithm updates and checks against account farms. If you have a lot of Facebook accounts, that can be called an account farm.

You will need to manage your multiple accounts discretely to avoid doing things that will expose your account footprint. First, on no account should you manage an account in a different browser profile in your anti-detect browser other than the one you allocated to it. I will recommend you name the browser profiles with the name of the account.

There should be separate of concerns and don’t use many accounts for the same tasks. If any of the accounts are found carrying out the same actions at the same period over some time, then it suggests the accounts are managed by the same person or identity.