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Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites with over more than 200 million active users worldwide. This weekend millions of Facebook users will be fighting up to  get a unique username for themselves for their profile making it easier for members to be located online. The web address for member’s profile or groups will contain the username going forward replacing the numeric id’s to easily direct friends, family, and co-workers to your profile.

The usernames will be allocated to users based on first-come, first serve basis and the members should be able to choose a username by 2.01pm AEST on Saturday or 12:01 a.m. Eastern time. The new format of URL will look like as shown below,

Only few celebrities and other VIPs were given ‘vanity URLs’ with names so far. Facebook designer Blaise DiPersia said in a Facebook blog post,

"This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you,"

He has also said, People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names. Your username will have the same privacy setting as your profile name in Search, and you can always edit your search privacy settings here. Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Be sure to check out this FAQ for answers to common questions, and if you’re an administrator of Facebook Pages, get more details here.  So what you are waiting for?