How to Get Your Facebook Username

Did you know that you can personalize your Facebook business or profile page by choosing your own individual Username? Any Facebook user can now get an individualized and searchable Facebook URL, making it easier for your friends, fans, or customers to find you. Here is How To Get Your Facebook Username.

Things You'll Need

• Facebook Account

Instructions

1. Facebook allows you to personalize your Facebook URL, or webpage. If you haven't already chosen a username and you log into your Facebook account, the web address URL that shows in the address bar at the top of the page looks something like this:

   www.facebook.com/profile.phd?id=478259118.

   Your default Facebook URL is just a randomly generated number that identifies your page to Facebook. Not very exciting, is it? And most of all, not very personal or searchable!

2. Facebook offers you the opportunity to make your page unique by allowing you to pick a personalized ending to the URL for your page. Whereas your Facebook webpage was

   www.facebook.com/profile.phd?id=478259118,

   it can now be www.facebook.com/john.smith, or www.facebook.com/acme.inc. You can use your name, a nickname, a business name, or choose anything that you want to represent you and your presence on Facebook.

   You can create a personalized URL for your Facebook profile and any Facebook Pages that you administer. The only condition for naming Facebook Pages (often called Fan Pages, and used for a business, band, or celebrity), is that you must have more than 100 Fans/Followers of your page before you can do this. This is subject to change by Facebook, so they may lower that requirement later on.

3. 

   To claim your personalized Facebook URL, log in to Facebook and go to the link, http://www.facebook.com/username. This link in the Resources section below for you to click on. Once you are there, Facebook will suggest some Usernames for you to pick. Facebook's picks will be based on your name or other account information, and there may be one that is exactly what you want, so go ahead and select it.

   You may also create your own Username. Facebook allows you to choose any name or word you want to represent your page, as long as it meets their standards and is available. Type in a Username you want, and then check availability. Facebook will let you know if you can have that Username, and then you have the option of selecting it or checking for more names. Be careful what you choose! Once you pick a Username, it is not editable or transferable to another account, so pick well! Make sure it is spelled correctly, and that it is a name you won't have second thoughts about later.

4. 

   Once you have decided on the Username you want and find out that it is available, click on the "Confirm" button and the name is yours!

5. 

   Facebook will confirm that your Username has been set!

6. You may not be able to get the exact Username you want. If Facebook informs you that the name isn't available, you will have to try another form of the name or word, or move onto some other choice. Usernames are First Come, First Serve, so if you want yours, claim it now!

Tips & Warnings

• Usernames can only contain AlphaNumeric characters or a period ("."), and must be at least five characters long.

• Usernames are not case sensitive.

• Once you have your Username, you then have your own personal Facebook web address that you can give to people. Send them directly to your page by giving them the address: www.facebook.com/your.username.

• Be very careful with the spelling of your Username! Once you click Confirm, you are stuck with it even if it's not what you wanted. A misspelled name will make it hard for someone searching for you to find you.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Facebook Username Link