Facebook Announces Vanity URLs for User Profiles! Get Your Own Starting June 13th

Jun 10, 2009 by Abbas

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If you’ve logged into your Facebook account recently you might have seen a message like the one above. Facebook just announced its plans to offer Usernames to the users. Profile URL’s on Facebook have been very mechanical and non-user friendly so far but that’s about to change.

Users can now choose a username for themselves and access profiles by typing usernames in the address bar. This feature has been in the pipeline for a LONG time now but with the popularity of the usernames like the ones at Twitter (e.g. @tnerd) Facebook just couldn’t avoid it.

The option of registering these usernames will be available starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13 and they are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The following image shows what the profile URLs look like right now and what will they look like once you get a username.

To stop the immediate abuse of this service, Facebook is rightly restricting this option for the users who registered for a user profile after today at 3 p.m. and Facebook Pages created after 31st of May.

You can get your usernames on the following page www.facebook.com/username/ which is currently running a countdown.

So, be the first one to get your name and secure your identity on one of the most popular social networking sites!