Facebook announced yesterday that beginning June 13, you will be able to create your own custom URL and account name, similar to what you can do with Twitter, Linkedin and other social networking sites. This will make it much easier to share your Facebook profile with friends.
I'm hoping you'll be able to do the same thing for Facebook pages. This will make it easier for businesses to promote their pages with traditional media as well as making it easier for people to find you or your business on Facebook and when using search engines such as Google. Choose your username carefully! Facebook says that once your username is set, you won't be able to change it.
If you have a common name, want to get a really cool URL or need to get some important keywords in your URL, you won't want to wait until June 14...it'll probably be too late! I see a mad scramble this Saturday!
More information is available on the Facebook blog.
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Just tried to get a custom URL for some of our clients. Unfortunately only Facebook pages with 1000 or more fans are eligible at this time. Facebook says at some point in the future all Pages will be eligible. You can still get a custom URL for your personal profile!
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