Get your Facebook Usernames on June 13, 2009
Don’t miss to get custom usernames for your Facebook profile.
All these days, the ultra-famous Facebook was using a random number to represent you (at least on the URL). That’s not greatly convenient when it comes to you getting a URL with some human rememberable name.
That’s all going to change on this Saturday, June 13, 2009. Starting at 12:01 AM on June 13, 2009 you’ll be able to choose a username which would make your friends, family and coworkers (essentially your contacts on Facebook) find you/get to your profile easily using, obviously, the username instead of the random number.
So, basically I can do this,
http://www.facebook.com/askar
instead of,
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=775944611
if I manage to get my username, of course.
To make it a bit more convenient for you to get to, Faceboook has a page up there at http://www.facebook.com/username/ with a countdown to June 13, 2009 12:01 AM.
So, stay tuned and be ready at 12:01 AM on June 13, 2009 and visit http://www.facebook.com/username/ as there will obviously be mad-rush when they open the doors for custom usernames.
June 13th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Gotten mine at around 12:06 AM EST. I couldn't find the first name username but had to go with the full name instead. Actually I had my first name available when I tried but had to cancel it because I thought of screen capturing it. Hmmm…bad choice on that split second. When I went back to try again it was snatched