How to Create a New Facebook Network for Your Business

by , President & Founder

Facebook networks are one of the major ways that it allows people to connect to each other. Networks come in a few different types including:

  • Regions (geographic)
  • Colleges
  • Workplaces
  • High School

If you are part of a small business, chances are you don't have a workplace Network setup on Facebook - but you can create one! Workplace networks allow you to setup a place for your co-workers or employees to connect to each other without needing setup a Group.

To setup your own Facebook network simply fill out the suggestion form here:

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=add_work
[as of 3/31/11 this link no longer works, this thread here states that a request needs to be sent to networkrequest@facebook.com. We've emailed this address to confirm the process of creating a network on Facebook and will post our results when we know more]

The form asks for the following fields:

  1. Name of your employer
  2. Email address supplied to you by your employer
  3. Work's website

and looks like this:
how to create a new facebook network

The process takes about a week, but it's pretty straightforward. The same process also works for setting up other types of networks.

Comments

Posted by yvz on . [Reply]

our university has'nt got a network on facebook. how can i a new network for university. because that link for works.pls help

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Posted by Joaquin Lippincott on . [Reply]

You are very welcome! I originally posted this last year, and the links since that original post have actually changed, so I updated it in February 2011.

Posted by Olivia on . [Reply]

Thank you for the tip but I'm not seeing the form through the link you sent, did fb change yet again?

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Posted by Joaquin Lippincott on . [Reply]

Hi Olivia,

It looks like it has bee changed again. I'm going to see if we can track down where it went.

Joaquin

Posted by Ritesh Tilani on . [Reply]

Thanks so much for following up on this. I've been trying to get Facebook to create my work network for months now. I sent many emails to the address they specified, but no progress or response whatsoever. I'd love to learn how to do that. Thanks again!

Posted by Adam on . [Reply]

HI EVERYBODY! I GUESS THE EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED TO: networkrequest@fb.com

that happened because of a simple fact that facebook gave away the domain "@facebook.com" to the users now.

Cheers!

Posted by taufiq on . [Reply]

our university is not listed in facebook network so what can we do

Posted by James on . [Reply]

The link was once needed to fill out a contact form on Facebook to generate an e-mail to reply back on. I found simply emailing networkrequest@fb.com doesn't work. As I had to reply to one that had a bunch of random letters in it as well. I believe Facebook is no longer focusing on Networks.

Unfortunately, I banned Facebook through our company routers as I felt there would be no motivation for my employees on Facebook without it.

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