Grab Your Facebook Vanity URL.

Written by Andy on July 16, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

I’m not a regular user of #Facebook and, consequently, have missed out on getting my own ‘Vanity URL’. Having such an unusual name, I wouldn’t have thought it would have been a problem. However, it would appear that someone has pipped me to the post and grabbed my name so facebook.com/andyharcombe is not, actually, me. If you’re interested, I’m at www.facebook.com/AndyCymru.

Vanity URL’s make it easier and cleaner to let people know how to get, and keep, in touch and I always advise clients to secure their ‘real estate’ with as many online services as they can. Practice what you preach eh!

Anyway, if you haven’t already grabbed your vanity URL on Facebook, I would suggest you go and do it now. Log in to Facebook and you should have a link to choose your username in the upper left-hand corner — or just go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ , login and select your username there.

While you’re at it, why not do the same for twitter, flickr, gmail etc.