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As far as I can remember, Facebook does not allow you to have your own custom name as your profile URL. While this added the security of the social network environment that Facebook is in (since you can only search people using their full names), it is often hard to let families and friends know your Facebook profile URL. If you notice, your Facebook‘s profile URL is currently just a randomly assigned number like “id=592952074.” Well, that soon will change.
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Your new Facebook URL will be any username that you choose. People can then enter your Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google or Yahoo!. The username will be on a first come first serve basis, though; Meaning, every usernames will be unique and, once you’ve picked one, it cannot be changed. This is an excellent move by Facebook, although a little bit too late. A lot of the social networking sites such as Myspace, Hi5, Friendster and many more has already implemented this feature from way back when. Although a bit late, it’s a welcomed addition to the most popular social networking site in the internet.
For the official Facebook announcement, you can read it in the Official Facebook Blog.
So be sure to log in to your Facebook account on Saturday, June 13th, at 12:01am so you will be able to grab the name you want.
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Using rewrites of dynamic links is always a smart choice (for the end user and for accesibility) =)
I suppose it’s helpful to avoid ‘ugly’ URL’s but i’m not completely convinced it was worth the effort! We’ll see.
Thanks for the post.
I need my facebook profile url to create my profile badge.But when give the link of my profile, it does not work.What can I do? Anyone please help me.
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All verified Facebook users are eligible to claim usernames. Verification require mobile phone authentication.