Facebook adding usernames this week
June 9th, 2009
announced today that they will be adding user generated usernames this week on profiles and pages. What does this mean exactly? It means you will have a cleaner url to your profile and/or page(s). For example: www.facebook.com/mlambert
I’ve been waiting for this feature for a long time, and I’m glad to see they are adding it. The only complaint I have is that once you set your name, it is set for good. Twitter allows it’s users to change their name as many times as they like (assuming the new name is available). Perhaps there’s something on Facebook’s backend that makes the ability to change challenging, or maybe we will see that feature in the future.
As of Friday June 12th, at 9pm PST, you can set your username at: .
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