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Summary. As of 12 June 2009, Facebook began allowing individual users to have their own personalized and simplified permanent short Facebook URL website address. This now establishes an additional way that individuals, organizations, businesses, and/or groups can have a presence on Facebook.
Benefit. Facebook has been offering the Page and Group options for organizations, businesses, and celebrities for quite a while now. Group and Page addresses are usually quite long. The new vanity personalized account page addresses will be short and not have the long numbers associated with them. For example, your personalized page would be www.Facebook.com/yourname
Information. The Facebook Username Support page offers the following questions and answers:
- Who is eligible to participate? Eligibility is limited to anyone who joined Facebook before usernames were publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on June 9, 2009. These users will have the chance to claim usernames at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009. This limitation is temporary. All users who joined Facebook after the cut-off will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009.
- Why are you limiting eligibility? This decision was made to prevent people from creating new accounts just to take advantage of reserving a username. Eligibility is limited to anyone who joined Facebook before username availability was publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Eligible users will have the chance to claim usernames at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009. This limitation is temporary. All users who joined Facebook after the cut-off date will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009.
- I’m new to the site. When can I claim a username? If you joined Facebook after 3 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, you will need to wait until Sunday, June 28, 2009 to become eligible to claim a username. If you joined Facebook before username availability was publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on June 9, then you will have the opportunity to claim a username at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009.
Setup. Those who are eligible to setup a username page address can visit http://www.facebook.com/username
