Facebook Profile URLs Are Ugly - Fix Yours Up

January 25th, 2008 | by Jason Alba |

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I’ve always wondered why services like Facebook don’t allow you to get away from ugly URLs… like our Facebook Fan Page:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6816644117

It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, right?

And your profile URL… the one where you would say, “find me on Facebook. ” It’s just as ugly. Instead of the default URL you can easily fix yours up with something like this:

http://profile.to/jasonalba

I’m not a super huge fan of this URL, with the “profile to (name)” format, but it is a lot nicer on the eyes that all the random numbers.

I think you can just login and then go to this page: http://apps.facebook.com/profiles (if that doesn’t work, go to this (ugly) URL to download the app: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4619579915).

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