Now, Facebook Users Can Add Their Names To Profile Addresses

From Friday onwards Facebook will begin letting members use their full names in online addresses for profile pages at the popular online social networking service.

Profile addresses, referred to as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), that are changed to the personalized format will consist of facebook.com/ followed in each case by a user's name.

Social Networking Or Family Networking? Adopted Man Finds Long Lost Family on Facebook!
A man who was put for adoption when he was just three-days-old has found his biological family after 33 years, thanks to popular social networking website Facebook.

"This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you," Facebook designer Blaise DiPersia said in a message posted at the firm's website.

"Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the web."

Switching to user names in URLs will make it easier for people to find people's pages using Facebook tools as well as online search engines, according to DiPersia.

A Lot About You from Your Facebook Profile
Your facebook profile reveals a lot about how you are in real life , a new study has revealed.

Facebook said users will be able to start claiming personalized URLs on a first-come, first-served basis beginning 9:01 pm Friday in California (04h01 GMT Saturday).

To thwart "squatting" on names, Facebook is only providing the option to members who signed up before midday Tuesday, according to DiPersia.

Access to Facebook Blocked in Iran
According to a recent communication by the ILNA news agency, Iran has blocked access to the social networking site Facebook, in view of the Presidential elections in June.

Facebook rival MySpace, owned by News Corp., has permitted personalized user names for about five years.

Source-AFP
ARU