Facebook offers you with personalized web address for your profile which would look something similar to http://facebook.com/yourdesiredname. But when you sign up for Facebook you do not get this custom web address directly for profile & fan page and your profile page address would look something like this http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=577022xxx, which make it difficult for you to share with others.
Just follow the tutorial below & get your personalized web address from Facebook. Which you can share with your friends & it may also appear in search engine when you type your name & search for it.
So Let start with the Tutorial how to get it yourself, It pretty easy and probably take 2 minutes of your time.
Important Note: Once you set the profile/fan page name you cant change it, so choose the name wisely.
1. First Logged into your Facebook account.
2. Now Navigate to http://facebook.com/username
3.After that you will see some information as image below.
4.Now either you can choose the available option or can get any other desired username & click on check availability.
5.After that a window will Pop-up like asking you to confirm.
6.That it you are done, now you have your own custom username for your profile page.
For the Fan Page you can need to follow the same step mention above and now you need to set a name for your page.
so now you can share this Address/URL of your profile/fan page with your friends easily.
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I’ll have to give this one a try
I was wondering is there any chance to change my page name? Nikunj, please let me know if this possible because i recently changed my company’s name and would like to change my fan page name too…
James
Hello James,
Sorry to inform you but you cant change the fan page name one its selected, you will need to create new fan-page or continue with the old one.
Thats bad, Hope Facebook may come-up with some new policies regarding this…
James
Hi Nikunj! I was seaching on how to personalize my profile with the username that I like and now I know how to personalize it with the help of your tutorial. Thank you so much Nikunj
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Its good to know the article helped you 🙂
Hi
If I change or set my username, will facebook force me to use timeline?
Hi Johnny,
Timeline feature will be activated by default for all the pages you it does not matter if you set a username