{"id":620,"date":"2009-06-22T20:09:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2009-06-22T20:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:36:40","slug":"facebook-allows-custom-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/facebook-allows-custom-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Allows Custom URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, this is probably old news, but FaceBook now allows you to set your own url, e.g. my facebook profile used to be here: <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Colin-McNulty\/1421747440<\/a> <\/p>\n

Now it is here: <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinmcnulty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is very nice, I like. Why they didn’t do such an obvious feature before is a bit of a mystery really. However, getting a custom Facebook url (or vanity url as it’s sometimes called) is now easy, you just go here: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/username\/<\/a><\/p>\n

WATCH IT THOUGH:<\/strong> it’s a one time deal. You can’t change your mind and you can’t undo it, so make sure you’re happy with what you chose, and make sure you don’t mistype it!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, this is probably old news, but FaceBook now allows you to set your own url, e.g. my facebook profile used to be here: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Colin-McNulty\/1421747440 Now it is here: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinmcnulty This is very nice, I like. Why they didn’t do such an obvious feature before is a bit of a mystery really. However, getting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-blog","8":"tag-facebook"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}