Comments on: A users' guide to personalizing your Facebook URL

What's exactly going to happen when Facebook starts letting all 200-plus million of its members create custom URLs for their profiles? Here are our best guesses.

[SebDavies]

Dont ask me why but cant wait for mine! :)

[ca5ter]

Once I get mine, I'm going to Twitter about it. This is only after I update my blog and My Space page... Right after I text all my friends about how I reply to this comment...

Good grief, get a life!

[SebDavies]

lol

[SebDavies]

But would you be replying to my comment if you had a life? :)

[blondepianist]

I've wanted FB to add this for a while!

[codynews]

Amazing that this is generating so much news... However I think it won't be as big of a deal as some are making it out to be. Next time I happen to log in I'll try to pick something close to my name. I won't be hitting refresh at 11:01. I mean, seriously. Who cares?

[Mr. Dee]

Yeah, I don't use facebook much lately, but I am looking to claim mine soon. But there other persons with my full name around the world - which kinda surprised me. I am hoping they will be asleep when I log into fb and get it first.

I going to be choosing something like facebook.com/cmccarthy

[mjconver]

Yeah, I don't get the buzz. It's just a URL, search engines obviate the need.

[codynews]

I'd be a tiny excited if not for the 5 char minimum. I'd like "Cody" but if I can't get my first name, meh, who cares. . :P

[TechnoMan475392]

Yeah seriously! I was hoping for facebook.com/jack. Bleh!

[lonestarState]

This as new as the computer keyboard, this is truely crap tech news. It seems as if I am reading the TMZ of technology. Do these editors have any brain cells?

[ifyouhadanegg]

For starters you should self-edit mate. It's truly, not 'truely'. For seconds, you are reading The Social, take a look at the About blurb and clamber down from your high horse.

[lonestarState]

i am not paid for for my spelling.

[clamenza]

No, but most of us don't need to get paid to spell correctly.

I don't know, maybe for us it's not a big deal for our brainpower.

[lonestarState]

a little knowledge: mark zturd stole the facebook idea from two brothers. once a thief always a thief. will not waste my brainpower on a shister's creation. it is sad, the nobody really cares that he stole a billion dollar idea. like mama always said: myfacetube yourselft!

[lordmorgul]

I wish they would have left company's brand issues out of the picture. Facebook WAS a social networking site. It is rapidly becoming an advertising nightmare that users willingly submit themselves to... one I won't tolerate getting too much worse before I stop using it.

[Carl242]

Interesting. The author's facebook page seems to be gone. Or maybe she got to choose the name but the URL is not live yet. Shucks. I was really hoping to get www.facebook.com/carolinemccarthy.

[ecotopian--2008]

I hate Facebook, and don't care what they are up to any more.

[kdog181518]

i read somewhere that you had to have at least a 1,000 followers to change your url which makes it useless for alot of ppl

[harrisonh1]

That's just for Pages (brands, companies, public figures, etc.). There's no minimum for regular users.

[kdog181518]

oh ok,i wish they would have said that in the article i read,they made it seem like thats how it was for everyone

[IcedMocha]

kdog181518 -- "oh ok,i wish they would have said that in the article i read,they made it seem like thats how it was for everyone"

There is no "they." The word is "she" as Caroline McCarthy is the "they." Duh!

[kdog181518]

Icedmocha-i said they because i dont even remember where i read the article,i just remember reading it but if that is the article then yes she

[harrisonh1]

I'm debating whether to try and grab my first name or full name. Leaning towards seeing if the first is available and falling back on the full.

[Harrison912]

Since I typically us FaceBook for socially marketing my safety and security web site, I may choose somethng to draw attention to it. Thanks, Caroline, for the breakdown.

[d4d4d4]

Or you could just buy a domain.

[carver333]

I'm sooooo glad that my name is the only one of it's kind on Facebook ^_^ At least I can thank my parents for one thing.

[angeljeanne]

Yes I am longed in as Anglejeanne, have had this name for years, Face Book or no face book,,I do not plan on changing nor do I go to Face Book, I feel they have too many problems, and I really don't want any part of there worries,,,but you all take care, and CHEERS and HUGS angeljeanne (jeanne) ttfn

[Bluecharmander]

i don't even own a facebook, but im going to join just to make a url..and then leave. Oo

[scheky1068]

Any thoughts to if you should go FIRSTNAMELASTNAME or FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME?

[agriffith96]

Both seem to work for me. I signed up for the FIRST.LAST but noticed that even if I dont' use the . it still goes to my page.

[DeonScanlon]

Sorry to be the pedant... but your title uses the apostrophe incorrectly.

You use the singular, indefinite article, [a], but then use the plural possessive apostrophe in [users'].

It should be either

[A user's guide] - ie The guide of A user; or

[Users' guide] - ie The guide of users.

Ciao

[bsmaxwell]

Very observant!

[RachelMTerry]

Well, I am underwhelmed. I just logged in on Sat at 7:14 PDT and FB did not ask me if I wanted a new url. How is this supposed to work?

Try going to www.facebook.com/username