How to Claim your Facebook Username

01. Feb, 2011 0 Comments

Claiming your Facebook email name is easy to do and the sooner you do it the better. Why is it important to claim your Facebook username? So you can get the name and email you want. You’re @facebook email address and vanity url is directly tied to your Facebook username. So, if you want to get your desired Facebook username, claim it now!

Claim Your Facebook Username

Facebook offers up a tool to check to to see if your username is available: Facebook Username Tool.

Some Benefits of Having a Facebook Username

Having a Facebook username means you can have friendly URLs; for instance: ‘http://facebook.com/people/joe-doe/224211′ could be linked via username as ‘http://facebook.com/joedoe’ if Joe got his desire username.

Facebook Username is Your Facebook Email Address

Facebook Messages will also use your username as an @email address. So if a user sends an email to joedoe@facebook.com and he has upgraded his Facebook Messages he will receive that in his inbox.

Is Your Facebook Username Name Taken?

Don’t be surprised. If you haven’t claimed your username by now, you may see that your desired username has already been chosen. It’s no surprise that someone else may have gotten yours before you. It’s ok, just pick one you like from the tool they provide… just make sure you like it because there’s no going back. Once you have chosen a Facebook Username for your account it’s a done deal.