Comments on: 7 Facts about Your Facebook Page Username

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:15:46 +0000

hi
my friend has set up a business facebook page and username. the settings all look fine to me but the username URl doesnt take you to the actual page…. just to the login page. any ideas on what might be wrong? i’ve looked at the privacy settings but cant see anything useful and i am running out of ideas!

By: muskan

muskan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:13:08 +0000

Hey Jesper , i have one problem i have crated a username for my page and after 1 day i have deleted that page and now i have created a new page but i am not able to get my old username back… how can i get back my old username when i already deleted that old page???

By: Sushanta

Sushanta — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:00:59 +0000

thanks
this post solve my problem to find my username

“Find the “Account Settings” option. Then just browse through the display that pops up and find the Facebook Username. Click the “Change” option “

By: Robbie

Robbie — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:40:24 +0000

I can confirm that it’s possible to transfer a facebook username to another account by submitting an IP infringement. They e-mailed me personally and told me that the username has been released for me to use. However, they deleted the infringing account in the process.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:19:56 +0000

Hi there,

If I set up one username, for example, “mywebsite”, can i set up another username for a different page that is “mywebsiteclub” ?

Or will this not be allowed because the second pages username has “mywebsite” in it which is already taken.

can i do this
original page username is “mywebsite”
second page – mywebsiteclub1
third page – mywebsiteclub2
forth page – mywebsiteclub3

and so on, or will the others be disallowed because “mywebsite” has already be taken

I wish to know this so as to set up my pages usernames properly and select mywebsite, and then not be allowed the other usernames on differnat pages.

Thanks much,
Michael

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:28:41 +0000

Hey Jesper thanks for this post. My problem is a little different. I had a fan page with an awkward page name but a good username. So I deleted the page thinking that once I deleted it, I could make a new page with a better page name and transfer the newly freed up username over to the new page. Now it seems that facebook wont even allow me to reclaim the old username even though the page it originally belonged to doesn’t exist anymore! Is there like a grace period in which it will become available again or is that name just forever off limits to the entire facebook community forever?

By: mayumi

mayumi — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:14:48 +0000

I am waiting for my webpage for my business to be finished, and I am not yet sure if I received the domain name I want. Should I wait until after I know the domain name before making my business page’s username? I am still unsure why it is important to have a “vanity” url…

By: Dane

Dane — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:29:22 +0000

Is there anyway to remove a period within a Facebook username?

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:08:48 +0000

Hi Ulrika,

So sorry to see that you had the same problem as me when trying to set up your facebook username. The only consolation is it makes us both feel a little better that we aren’t alone in finding the whole thing unclear, frustrating and unfriendly!
Since posting on this page I haven’t had any luck in resolving any of it. No-one has stepped forward with a solution and I have emailed facebook via their ‘report a bug’ link twice but have yet to receive a reply….I’m not holding my breath!
I want to move forward but I am reluctant to do anything until I know for sure I can’t undo what has been done as everything I do online uses my ‘vintagejewelbox’ and I really want facebook to have the same identity. Also I am still not clear about what I should have done differently so until I feel 100% certain I don’t want to use my second choice name in case that goes wrong too!
I will check back to this page periodically to see if anyone posts anything helpful for us. You are more than welcome to contact me via facebook( the link in my first post) if you wish, sometimes two heads are better than one

Carol.

By: Ulrika

Ulrika — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:17:38 +0000

Hi Jasper/Carol,

I am happy to see some other people having the same issue as myself, but also sad to know that this seem to be a more common problem only because the instructions on Facebook when setting this up is less then userfriendly.
I also did the same thing as Carol, selecting the long url when I was going to create the username for my business page only to be presented with the unnamed app page. I assume I should have picked someting else? and I am not sure how this can be amended to be linked to the proper page and I have gone through all the help files on Facebook in search of an answer, unfortunately without success. I have also looked for a way of contacting Facebook and that have proven more difficult than I would have thought.
I’m so pleased I found your website in my quest of sorting this out and I hope, hope, hope you know of some way of sorting this as I would have as Carol used the username without it actually being linked to the business page.
Any ideas?

Ulrika, a gutted inexperienced Facebook user