{"id":69,"date":"2009-06-14T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/facebook-launches-vanity-url\/"},"modified":"2013-04-21T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:18:59","slug":"facebook-launches-vanity-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/facebook-launches-vanity-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Launches Vanity URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook finally launched a feature that was long overdue from a popular social networking site of its stature. After a dramatic 3 day countdown yesterday midnight they have launched the vanity URLs for its users. Now instead of a random number at the end of your Facebook profile URL you can actually have your name( if you are lucky) or some meaningful word of your choice.<\/p>\n<p>I think I am a bit late on this post ( am a real lazy a** these days) because the rush is full on and if you have not secured your personalized Facebook URL, log on to your Facebook account right away and you will see a notification of the vanity URL on top of your profile page. Just follow the instructions and you should be done in a jiffy.<\/p>\n<p>My relatively long Indian name helped me get some competitive advantage as I guess there are not many Facebookers by my name and now I am at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/saptarshi.roy.chaudhury\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/saptarshi.roy.chaudhury<\/a> .If you have not yet grabbed your its high time you get one.<\/p>\n<p>However, as per Facebook blog for recent Facebook users who have signed up for an account after May 31st this feature would not be available for now.<!--more--> This has been set up to prevent name squatting on Facebook and I think its a very wise decision that the Facebook guys have taken.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you signed up for a Facebook Page after May 31 or a user profile after today at 3 p.m. EDT, you may not be able to sign up for a user name immediately because of steps we&#8217;ve taken to prevent abuse or &#8220;squatting&#8221; on names.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now with this personalized Facebook URL, it would probably be a better tool to use for online search reputation management, and would probably be much more effective if Facebook allows for a little more information on profile pages for users without log ins ( Google bot don&#8217;t have a Facebook ID \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p><span>Related Posts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/facebook-song-with-lyrics-enjoy\/\">Facebook Song with Lyrics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/facebook-sacrifices-burger-king-application\/\">Facebook Sacrifices Burger King Application<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook finally launched a feature that was long overdue from a popular social networking site of its stature. After a dramatic 3 day countdown yesterday midnight they have launched the vanity URLs for its users. Now instead of a random number at the end of your Facebook profile URL you can actually have your name( [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[113,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}