Facebook To Be Latest To Offer Vanity URLs
Facebook To Be Latest To Offer Vanity URLs
Posted 06/10/2009 at 2:20pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Joining their other social networking brethren, Facebook announced this week that they’d be the next to provide “usernames,” which will translate into custom URLs.
“We're planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you,” writes Blaise DiPersia on Facebook’s official blog. “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.”
But, like other sites that provide the same feature, you can’t change your username once you’ve selected it. So, while “Turd Ferguson” may seem like an attractive choice, perhaps you should consider something else?
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bloodgain
June 11, 2009 at 12:36am
A LOT of people are bitching and moaning about this on the Facebook Blog comments for this post. I don't get what everybody is so worked up about.
Facebook is doing one thing: giving you a unique username that will be your facebook page's new identifier in the URL instead of "pageid=1234567890"
Why does everybody keep acting like Facebook is taking your name off of your page, removing the ability to search by name/location/school/etc, labeling all your future posts with your username, and giving all your friends the option to just make their Facebook page a mirror for their MySpace account? Nothing is changing -- they are ADDING A FEATURE.
And people keep asking, "why isn't your name and location good enough any more?". Maybe because it's never been good enough -- I find friends all the time that I couldn't find using the search feature that I finally come across while looking through some other dear old friend's friend list. And what if your name is John Smith and you live in New York City? When you run into your old high school sweetheart at Starbucks, wouldn't it be easier to tell her to look you up at www.facebook.com/GuitarManJohn instead of saying, "Hey! Search for me among all the John Smiths in New York City. Maybe we can reignite our old romance -- if you ever find me!"? Admit it -- sometimes a unique username is just easier.
quickone
June 10, 2009 at 6:27pm
"When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile
or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username This way
people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you."
Because your name for friends and family would be too difficult? Facebook
has gone downhill fast. They were their own unique thing then tried to
be like my space, now they are trying to be like twitter with all this
statious update stuff. Before when it was about connecting people it
was great, now it is about making money by connecting people
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