Pick Username for your Facebook Profile

Hemanth Kumar — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:29:07 +0000

In Facebook, we have used our real names to share and connect with the people we know. But your identity was not reflected in the URL or web address of your profile. Now you can select username for your profile, so that you can see your name or brand in the web address rather than some number.

Generally Facebook profile URLs are look like facebook.com/profile.php?id=. But now Facebook lets you create a username, so that your new Facebook profile web address looks like facebook.com/.

With this new Facebook profile web address you can easily remember and share with your friends. URL looks good on your Facebook cards and business cards. Get username for your profile by visiting www.facebook.com/username/.

People can easily find you and connect with you through search. For example people can enter Facebook username as search term in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to find you. You can choose the username for your pages on the Facebook.

Over 200 million people are using Facebook, so getting desired username may difficult as you can choose username on first-come, first-serve basis. And choosing username is not compulsory, It’s optional. For example Michael Arrington from TechCrunch did not get desired username for his profile, so he did not picked one.

You can select username in creative way. The best Facebook vanity URL is grabbed by Christine Shipley. She choose facebook.com/default.aspx. One can confused that her username may be the default landing page of Facebook. She is smart, as Facebook is built in PHP, and not ASP, we can get .aspx in the username. I tried as Christine and got one facebook.com/members.aspx. And Look at 15 silliest Facebook Vanity URLs.

Rules for choosing a Username:

Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop ("."). While usernames are currently available only for Romanized text, we’re looking at how we might support non-Romanized characters in the future.

Be careful while choosing a username for your profile. Once it’s been selected, you won’t be able to change or transfer it. The new Facebook users who are signed up after May 31st, may not be able to pick username for their profile or page immediately.

Do not be late, Hurry and grab your username on Facebook.

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Pick Username for your Facebook Profile