How to Create / Change / Update your Facebook URL

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I've found it's almost impossible to find clear and concise information on how to create/change/update an existing Facebook Profile or Page URL into a "pretty" URL.

Because Profiles and Pages are indexed on search engines, many people would prefer to have a URL of their choosing -- instead of having the default URLs with unwieldy strings of numbers that are impossible to remember!

NOTE: Think and choose carefully! Once your change/update your URL you cannot change it again. At this time, Facebook allows a one-time change only -- and it must be a choice that is not being used by someone else.

So how do you change your URL? It's amazingly simple.

Login into Facebook and then go to this link:

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Follow the instructions from there.

Did you find this helpful? If so, please share it -- and leave a comment below to let me know!

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Kevin Lieser February 21, 2012 at 7:31

Hi there! How can i change the URL of my Fanpage? Anyone out there who knows? Thanks a lot! Cheers!

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Ruth Sylte February 22, 2012 at 7:25: Kevin, unfortunately Facebook only allows one choice — which is why it pays to carefully consider your page URL. At this time, once you’ve changed it, it cannot be changed again.

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Holiday villas March 23, 2012 at 10:57

Thanks for the info. Just what I was looking for

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Amethyst March 25, 2012 at 3:04

I’ve got all this down, but I can’t change the URL to one of my groups. Anyone know how to do it?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/211210698957383/

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Ruth Sylte March 26, 2012 at 8:30: Amethyst, as far as I know, you cannot change Group URLs, just personal and Page URLs.

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Jane April 11, 2012 at 2:26

Hey,

Great! I didn’t know that we can change the FB url. I did like to change mine. I’ll try and see how it works. Thanks so much for sharing this information.

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Adi April 28, 2012 at 1:17

My account was hacked once and the hacker changed the URL. How can I change it to the old one?

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Ruth Sylte May 3, 2012 at 6:12: Which account was hacked?

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Jane May 9, 2012 at 3:53

I’ve the same problem for sometime now. I’ll try many things in my FB profile to change my URL and finally change it and forget who I changed it. This post is really helpful. I don’t have to keep on trying various things now.

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