Facebook usernames are an attempt to make Facebook profiles and pages easily shareable. Basically, usernames affect your profile’s URL. For example, the current URL for my Facebook profile is this:
Facebook.com/people/Alec-Renton/234124
Not exactly the easiest URL to share in the world. After today though, my Facebook URL will be as follows:
Facebook.com/Alect-Renton
This is a much easier URL to remember and share with others. It encourages sharing, friending, and increased activity on Facebook. It follows in the footsteps of Twitter and MySpace, both of which offer the vanity URL.
Facebook pages also have the option to register usernames, but as we reported earlier, your page has to have over 1000 fans to quality. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until the end of the month to register a custom URL. If you want to protect your trademark, visit this page to register it with Facebook.
At 12:01 ET/9:01 PT on Friday the 12th of June 2009, users will be able to register a username by visiting Facebook.com/Username. This page will launch with the ability to register a username at that time.
Default choices are variation of your full name, but you can choose your own custom username. However, if someone else has taken it before you, you’re out of luck, so register your URL quickly. Usernames can only have numbers, letters, and periods, so no special characters or hyphens. Once you have chosen a username, you cannot change it, so choose wisely. Rushing it could result in a mistake that cannot be fixed.
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from the facebook i met my long time friend.so guys keep facebook high….
I have made a mistake. How may I cancel my Facebook membership?
Bill Hethcock
good your idea
i would like to register the URL http://www.facebook.com/amosroditis , can you please advise me on availability. Your help in this matter would be much appreciated
Yours Sincerely.
Amos Roditis
good chance to connect people all over the world
i want to cancel my membership with facebook and get my e-mail address off my computer?
what is taking you so long?
i made a mistake by joining with facebook,so please take me off the list?
how can i loggin facebook?
How can I put my facebook URL on my webpage. I tried to copy it from the profile badge and that didn’t work. How do I make it more personal
I have a facebook page with yahoo.com. Having great difficulty connecting. I have an established page on facebook. Can not get access. Accoring to yahoo, I suddenly don’t have the same address or password. What can I do?
I would like to know how to use facebook. My daughter-in-law placed me on facebook but failed to tell me how to use it or my password