Facebook, one of the World’s Largest Social Networks has announced that it would be providing its users with usernames. Earlier a person connected with his friends and colleagues by just his actual name. His profile URL was just a randomly assigned number like “id=592952074.” That soon will change.

Starting on Saturday, June 13th, at 12:01am, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile. Its a first come first serve type of allotment. Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (”.”).

There is a wide-spread buzz throughout the social networking site regarding this. Some say that if people are actually searching for a person then they’ll obviously know their name. It doesn’t make any difference whether it is 34523424234234 or username234. Often the unavailability if usernames forces users to get some random usernames which they themselves don’t prefer.A majority of the users feel that the change is needless and is not required.

Some welcome this new change. Usernames allow public entities to easily promote your presence on Facebook with a short URL (http://www.facebook.com/yourname). This username can be used in your marketing communications, company website and business cards. Blogger’s also would try to get their names in such a way that it would help them in SEO of their site.

One more important point to note here is that once you select your username you cannot change it. So be wise in taking a decision on your Facebook username.

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