Facebook users to get personalized URLs - InternetNews.com

June 10, 2009

One minute after the stroke of midnight on Saturday could usher in a virtual land grab for vanity URLs on Facebook, with the social networking site poised to enable members to create usernames for personalized online addresses.

Currently, the URL for a Facebook profile ends with a string of digits. But beginning on Saturday morning, members can substitute the numbers with a name of their choice to make it easier for friends to navigate to their site...