If you have made appointments for the morning of Saturday, June 13, or simply planned to stay, it might be appropriate to change your plans. Who among the more than 200 million users of Facebook has logged on the social network in the last hour has been advised of the small revolution that will kick off the weekend: the arrival of the custom URL.
Feature relatively rare among social networks, Facebook so far has not provided a personalized web address for the pages of its users, but it automatically generated a long string of numbers and anonymous has made it impossible identify someone from simpler URL of their profile. The original choice of site, different from other popular platforms such as MySpace and Twitter, has allowed many members of the same name to register without having to accept strange and unlikely combinations or abbreviations with dates of birth, choices now mandatory for entry to the most popular email providers.
According to the statement posted on the official blog, the decision came to facilitate the recognition of a user among other things, perhaps taking advantage of the best search engine optimization that this change will bring. If today to find a friend had to fathom the social network with its internal motor, with the risk of having sifting through dozens of the same name, this should facilitate further added a little 'things.
the reasons given by you must add, however, as Facebook's move is the last step in the long battle for digital identity that sees the social network and its deal with Google's baby.
the new URL. Change your URL will be possible in Italy starting from the 6:01 minute of Saturday, June 13, but to be sure that your clock is synchronized with the house of Facebook, you can already bring home to the provost at the 'inevitable countdown. Starting Dall'Ora X, users may wish to change the address web profile, following the classic rules of the network (nomecognome, firstname.lastname etc.) and incorporating a nickname. Unlike the personal data that are updated, the URL will not change it anymore, so you better be careful not to type errors.
problems. Moving from a system of addresses generated automatically brings with it a customizable number of problems. One problem was the presence of several of the same name that, if interested in a "Vanity URL" (as dubbed by the American blogs) will make competing for the available combinations (the url it must necessarily be different from each other). A simple search on Facebook reveals how they are Mario Rossi attended by over 500 (many are actually empty profiles) and 148 George White, each of which may be more interested in the simple combination of first and last name. Imagine hundreds of people in front of the computer at 6 am to register your name is not remote hypothesis. The final combination of certain url will better understand who has bet the alarm clock or the click was faster.
Leaving aside the suggestions of vanity, a problem of course there is the highest possible repetition on Facebook of the phenomenon of cybersquatting, or registered trademarks and the exploitation of others on the network. If the social network yesterday won his battle to get the domain facebook. it, until now in the hands of a cybersquatter International, paradoxically, the creation of custom domains will create a new dimension of the phenomenon. To prevent someone comes into possession of famous brands, the site allows legal owners of a logo to pre-register the application and has blocked the ability to create custom url for users iscrittisi after June 9. To understand whether these precautions work, especially in front of the registration of names of celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, sports and politics, just wait a few days. Facebook, custom url
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