Facebook, a social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos, the 4th placer on Alexa Top 500 Global sites, faced a rush of users to register internet addresses under their name after it introduced the offer on June 13.
According to Bloomberg source “Facebook, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, began accepting registrations at midnight on June 13, on a first-come, first-served basis. Within 15 minutes, more than 500,000 user names had been assigned, said Larry Yu, a spokesman for the Palo Alto, California-based company. More than three million registered in the first 12 hours, he said.
“It’s rewarding to see so many people are interested in getting a user name,” Yu said. While traffic to the site was higher than usual, the feature’s introduction went smoothly, he said.
Facebook said personalised addresses will make it easier to find people. Users can direct friends to a simplified web address, such as http://www.facebook.com/username. Previously, those addresses had strings of letters and numbers. The change also makes it easier to find Facebook members through search engines such as Google.”
Today, I’m going to show you how to claim your personalized internet address on facebook.
- Login to your facebook account
- On top of your status, click Set your username now.
- Select your desired username suggested by facebook or you can type in one of your own. Take note that you will not be able to edit or transfer your username once you set it. So make sure you are 100% sure in choosing your username.
- Click OK and your username has been set.
- You can now direct friends to facebook.com/username.
You can check out my personalized facebook here.
