Did you get your preferred username at Facebook?
June 13th, 2009 by John Dilbeck
I know this is not breaking news for many of the readers of this blog, because you already got the username you wanted on Facebook today.
Still, for others who aren’t up on the latest developments, I thought it would be worth a short post about the subject.
This morning, Facebook made it possible for us to set our preferred username (if it is available) to make it easy to link to our profile there.
I was lucky and now you can reach my profile at facebook.com/johndilbeck.
Have you claimed your username at Facebook, yet?
You can do it here: facebook.com/username.
Act on your dream!
JD
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June 14th, 2009 at 11:02 am
well, I did not get the one I wanted. but I did get moonvine, like my twitter name, so that is good, i guess.
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June 14th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
YES I got mine!
Guess I’m not popular enough for someone to steal my name on facebook yet
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June 14th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Good afternoon, Joan.
Sorry you didn’t get your first choice, but “moonvine” isn’t bad, either. Many of us already know you by that on Twitter and elsewhere, so it’s not like it’s a completely different username.
Act on your dream!
JD
June 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Good afternoon, Solomon.
Congratulations on getting the username you wanted.
Act on your dream!
JD
June 14th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
I was one of the unlucky folks who was unable to get anything even close to my name. I figure I’ll just set it later when I have time to figure out where I’m going to put all my underscores, dots and hyphens.
June 14th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Truthfully, I can’t figure out why I need it, so I’m not even going for it.
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June 15th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Good morning, Bob.
I’m sorry you couldn’t get the username you wanted. Maybe after you’ve had some time to think about it you can come up with one you’ll like.
Act on your dream!
JD
June 15th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Good morning, Mitch.
It’s been a long-standing burr under my saddle that it was so hard to remember my Facebook profile address. That’s why, as soon as I could, I grabbed the username “johndilbeck” to match my username on almost all the other social networking sites.
For me, it’s an ease-of-use thing.
For others, it may make it easier to find me.
For example, which is easier to tell someone, and for them to remember?
facebook.com/johndilbeck
or
facebook.com/profile.php?id=502403467
That’s why I set mine as soon as I could.
I just tried going to the old address and see that it’s redirected to the new /johndilbeck address. That may have some SEO benefits. We’ll see.
Of course, if it’s not important to you, then there’s no rush. Right?
Act on your dream!
JD
PS. My condolences on your problems with Vista. Who would ever think to look at the boot order of the drives? That was a very good catch on your part.
I believe I’ll just stick with using my Macs.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Good morning, Mitch,
After posting the reply a few moments ago, I went to Google and searched for “johndilbeck” (without the quotes).
My Facebook profile now shows up on page two of the results. I don’t think it did prior to their changes over the weekend.
We’ll see if that has any benefits.
Act on your dream!
JD
June 15th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Thanks John. I actually did go ahead and get my name, which has a number added to it since there are others with my name. However, I still won’t remember my profile name; luckily, Firefox remembers all.
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June 15th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I made a Facebook username but I don’t know what it is. I tried reading more information about it but it did not tell me what it is!! So, sorry for my ignorance but can you tell me what this is about and does my friends need to specifically type in my web adress/ username to look into my profile? Is there some way to delete it?
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June 16th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Yeah, I got my name.
facebook.com/deneilmerritt
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June 16th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Good afternoon, M.S.E.
(I prefer addressing a real person’s name rather than a handle, so, since I didn’t know your name, I’m abbreviating what I do know.)
I’m sorry, but I really don’t understand what you mean.
Did you create a username, but can’t reach your profile using it?
Have you tried going to your profile using the old URL and seeing if it redirects to the one with a username rather than a number?
I don’t know anything about being able to delete it.
You may have to try contacting Facebook support.
Good luck!
JD
June 16th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Good afternoon, Deneil.
Congratulations on getting your name as your Facebook username. It’s getting harder and harder to do that.
I guess we’d be out of luck if our name was John Smith.
Act on your dream!
JD
June 16th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Good afternoon, Mitch.
As long as you know how to link to your Facebook profile so people can find you there, that’s probably the most important thing.
I don’t know about Firefox remembering all. I make it a point not to tell it about certain things.
JD
June 17th, 2009 at 3:17 am
John,
I guess I am lucky my mom put in some hard thinking for my name.
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June 19th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Good morning, Deneil.
You make a very good point.
Can you imagine being John Smith and trying to be the first one to get that username on Squidoo?
Act on your dream!
JD
June 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am
I would have 2 windows open to try my best to get 1 of the 2.
facebook.com/johnsmith
facebook.com/john.smith
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October 18th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I haven’t even had chance to set up Facebook account yet. Even my 9 month old grandson Logan has his set up.
I need to get a move on!
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October 28th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Good morning, Steve.
I got a laugh out of you being behind your 9 month old grandson.
I can relate, in a different way, though. I’ll never know as much about cell phones as my grandkids do.
Act on your dream!
JD
December 6th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Has anyone figured out a way to delete the username once it’s been set?
December 8th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Good morning, Anita.
Welcome to our discussions.
That’s the first time I’ve heard anyone ask that question. I don’t know the answer.
I wonder what Facebook help has to say…
I just went and looked at their help files regarding usernames and I see that Facebook support can remove a username, but I don’t see any way for a user to revert to not using one.
I guess it would be possible to contact support and ask them to remove a username, but I don’t know how well that would work.
Act on your dream!
JD