I wrote about this on my personal blog (note: I curse there, you’ve been warned), but I figured this would also be good here because the problem of “stuck” Facebook likes is quite annoying.
On Facebook there’s the ability to “like” things. You can “like” something someone posted as a status update, a photo, an app, and so on. This one specifically concerns pages a.k.a. “fan pages”.
I decided to go into my Facebook personal profile and get rid of all my likes for pages because I found having them worthless to me, and the fact that posts on those pages flood your wall easily. Yes, you can “hide” posts by pages, but it’s better off if you just “unlike” them outright.
Well, I ran into a problem. There were certain pages I couldn’t “unlike” no matter what I did, and this was extremely irritating because I just wanted those “likes” gone.
I searched for the solution with a few Google searches and nobody seemed to know how to fix this problem, so I had to figure it out myself.
The problem is if you “like” a Facebook page, and then that page is later redirected, you can’t “unlike” it until you go back to the original page the new page was redirected from.
Confused? Yeah, I was too. But I finally figured out how to get those pesky pages that wouldn’t “unlike” off my “like” list.
Here’s how it’s done.
1. Login to Facebook.
2. Go to your personal profile page (www.facebook.com/your-name-here).
3. Click on your “likes” box (right side and under your profile photo).
4. Find the page you can’t “unlike” and click it to go there.
5. Look under the title of the page. If it states “Redirected from [here]“, click that link.
6. On that page, that is the one you “unlike”, and it’s finally gone.
Is this listed anywhere in the Facebook help area? Of course not. If it were, I would have posted a link to it.
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I’m trying to do what you advised but no luck on anything showing that I was redirected. I’ve got SEVERAL pages that I need to unlike because a friend of mine was on my computer entering giveaways and having to like facebook pages and didn’t realize that it was MY facebook account that was still logged on. Please help!
Since you can’t get an answer here from anyone, I thought I would share what I did. First, are you trying to Unlike from your page or profile? If it is your Page that you want to remove the group or page you liked then follow the instructions below.
From your “profile” page go to the page you want to unlike and next to the Unlike button is a little gear. Click that drop down arrow and select “Remove from my page’s favorites. That should remove from your page. Let me know if you have any question or problems with the instructions. I am on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rodden.walker
Also trying to do this from our page, the suggestion above is not working
THANX!!!!! Finaly rid of those damn pages!!
I am also trying to remove a couple of likes I accidentally liked on one of my facebook pages. When I try to press unlike I get an error that something went wrong and it’s getting fixed. Please help!
awesome way to remove “likes” that turn out to be spammers in the sense that they post tons and tons of stuff onto your page. don’t these people have real lives?
BTW this is what FACEBOOK should be telling people what to do in help but does NOT.