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Grab Your Custom Facebook URL This Saturday!

June 10th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News

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Beginning this Saturday June 13th at `12.01 AM EST (4:02 AM GST) registered Facebook users can current their current Facebook generated random url for one that more closely resembles their name.

The new usernames are limited to alphanumeric characters or a period (“.”) and must be at least 5 characters long. So custom urls will look something like www.facebook.com/john.smith. or maybe www.facebook.com/yourband.com . While the change isn’t mandatory yet, Facebook has 200 million users, so if you don’t gab your url now someone else might. There is a mechanism to dispute the urls of trademark names, but who wants to go through that hassle.

Get you Facebook URL starting this weekend at http://www.facebook.com/username/.

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