Facebook Offers Vanity URLs
Have you heard the latest Facebook news buzzing around the Internet? Tonight at 9:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Facebook users will be able to choose a personalized URL. Your current Facebook URL probably looks something like this:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=987895253After selecting a username, your URL will look more like this:
http://www.facebook.com/username
Vanity URLs will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, though certain celebrities and businesses will have usernames reserved for them. Restricting usernames for public figures and corporations is meant to avoid confusion for the remaining 200 million Facebook users. If you type in http://www.facebook.com/britneyspears, you want to find Britney Spears - not Al Yankovic, right?
If you are a business owner with a Facebook account, click here to fill out an online form in order to save the trademark of your company. If you are not a business owner, I suggest that you stay close to an Internet-ready computer at midnight this evening to ensure that you get the vanity URL that you want. Please note that usernames with obscenities will be prohibited (shucks!).