Personal URLs launced by Facebook

June 13, 2009 by: 0

icon_facebookFacebook has come up with personal URLs for users this Saturday.now the members will set usernames instead for random numbers, to show up in their page’s URLs.Being able to choose the URL for your social profile (i.e.

Twitter.com/BenParr) not only makes it easy to share with others, but helps you claim a little piece of social media space as your own.In order to protect URLs from spammers and squatters, Facebook administrators are instituting a temporary ban from registration against anybody who has created a Facebook Page since May 31st or a regular profile since 3 p.m. EST Tuesday. That ban will be lifted at an as-of-yet unspecified time. If you’re a long-standing Facebooker, though, you should have no problem in signing up a minute after the stroke of midnight (Eastern time) this coming Saturday.There will be an inevitable gold rush for names on June 13th, and thus there will be many disappointments, complaints, and issues to sort out once the system goes live. Nonetheless, this should be a positive step towards making Facebook profiles a more shareable and personal experience.
Rather Facebook should have done it long time back .

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