Facebook Users are now able to get a clean profile URLs

Facebook introduced clean profile URLs to its users allowing them to move Facebook applications to an extensive portion of their profile. Facebook username’s advantage includes a clean URL for your Facebook profile that has the username, making it easy for anyone to advertise his/her profile with pride and will also let other Facebook users memorize the URL to his/her profile, in case they have a reference. Users will have an edge in search engine results for their name as the keyword by using this feature.

It’s great thing that Facebook is allowing the users to register usernames and custom URLs. Now you are able to register Facebook.com/YourName as your own. By offering this feature Facebook trying to compete with two of its major competitors that are Twitter and MySpace. Such types of URLs for profiles have already been offered by them. Facebook does not allow you to change your username once you signed up so make sure that choose your username that is good one for you. It is generally advised that try to pick your real name in order to ensure that people can find you.

It is great news from Facebook and through this Facebook will get more search engine traffic. It also means individuals and organizations will now be able to find your Facebook profile that much easier so it is vital that you keep it clean and professional. Although this is a feature many users have been waiting for but there are other Facebook members that are not happy with this and gave negative response.

Some people are happy with this because they feel that now if someone wants to find my Facebook profile. He/she would have to write just my name on Google to find my Facebook page. Along with that this change also brings an additional level of personalization and promotion in the mix. You can Facebook part of your personal branding strategy. It can also give you a great feeling of ownership over your profile.

On the other hand the negatives comments include one major issue and that is related to privacy and community concerns.Users has been raising such issues or just general discomfort in Facebook comments. Some have even created Facebook protest groups.
They say that users may steal the brand names of rivals just to keep it out of their hands, leading to a lot of headaches, complaints, and a mess to clean up.

As we it is general phenomena that every person has its now thoughts and perception. Just like Twitter and MySpace, Facebook encourages all users and Page administrators to create a username that more relevant and truly representing the identity of their name or business so that they have their own custom URLs.