Facebook giving out Vanity URLs
After Google its Facebook’s turn to allow users to create vanity urls aka username aka profile name. I logged into my Facebook profile today and got the following notification:
Soon you will be able to have a username
Starting on Saturday, June 13th, at 9:31am, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile.
Check out the Facebook Blog for more information or send yourself an email with the details.
What it means is explained on the Facebook Blog:
Till now The one place…where your identity…(on Facebook wasn’t reflected was)…in the Web address for your profile or the Facebook Pages you administer. The URL was just a randomly assigned number like “id=592952074.” That soon will change.
Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the Web. People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names. Your username will have the same privacy setting as your profile name in Search, and you can always edit your search privacy settings here.
We’re planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.
Google already provides vanity urls here http://www.google.com/profiles/
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