Facebook has removed the ability for Page admins to tag their friends when posting as their Page, Inside Facebook reported.

Previously, Pages could use this ability to highlight people who authored content they were posting, or to thank admins and loyal fans. This ability helped Pages encourage users to be active members of their fan community. Facebook may have made this change because users tagged by popular Pages might receive high volumes of unsolicited friend requests.

The change may be designed to push those looking to build up their name to create a Page for themselves that can be tagged by other Pages. Getting more people and businesses to set up Pages is also in Facebook’s interests, as Page often buy advertising to gain more Likes.

In September 2009, Facebook began allowing users to tag anything they were connected to, including friends, Pages, Events and later Places and new Groups as they were launched. Pages were given the same ability. More recently Facebook allowed for tagging within comments, for tags of user names to be shortened to just a first or last name, and for users to tag Pages in photos.