Contributed by: Editor on Wednesday, June 10 2009 @ 12:37 pm
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Starting this weekend, Saturday June 13th at 12:01 am EDT Facebook users will be able to choose a username for your profile. What this allows is your identity to be easily seen in your Facebook URL which up to now is just a number, as example:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890
The new look will be similar to how Twitter does it:
http://www.facebook.com/your.username.here
There are several reasons for Facebook adding this new feature, with the main one being to allow for easy identification of a profiles URL. This will also make it easier for search engines like Google to identify and index web pages.
This is a first-come, first-serve basis so if you have a name in mind, I would reserve it early Saturday. Full detail instructions are available here[*1] and will also be present on your homepage starting this Saturday. Privacy isn't a concern since your new username will have the same privacy settings as your profile name.
For more information, read the Facebook blog post.