How to create a Username for your Facebook Profile or Business Page

April 29, 2024 Beau Knowles LGBT Facebook is a good platform if you are a beginner at social media marketing. It is easy to navigate but Facebook has updated its pages and features frequently. Many times it can be hard to figure out how to change your information. 

Why create a Username? 

I recently updated the usernames on all my community and business profiles. Why create a username? It's my experience if I don't create username its harder for my page to come up when it's mentioned by an individual or a business. You can only use and @ symbol to mention a business on Facebook if it has a username. Also, you want to keep your username safe from another person using it. If you only have your company name on your page but not on your username another business, or entity can take the username you wanted. If you have already created a brand it may cost you to update your information. 

Step by step instructions for creating a username on a laptop

Here are my instructions for creating a username for your business, nonprofit, community etc. 

• Go to you business page. You do need to be logged into the page as the page and not as your personal profile. 

• Click on your page icon, this has your photo on it. 

• Click on settings and privacy. instead of the old laundry list of options there is now a search bar at the top of the page.

• There is a new "Find a Setting you Need" Search bar.

• You are going to enter "Name and Username" for name and username are listed together. 

• On the next page it will highlight name with a clipart of a photo id. Click on that.

• The next page that should come up is a list of different things about your page. Name, page access, page management history etc. You want to click "View" at name" listing.

•  Here it'll have your general page settings, one says name and the other says the username. You need to update your username to match your name. 

• When you're creating a username there cannot be any spaces between it the letters. You can use., or dashes but no spaces. 

• When you're updating this, it will ask you for the password for your primary Facebook profile account. 

• Once it has gone through you can click back on your profile photo in the right-hand corner and you will see at the top of the navigation bar your username has been accepted.

While you are at these pages you may chose to update your page name as well. Facebook should let you change it as long as another page is not already using it. 

How's it going? 

I was able to update all my usernames to match the page names. If I found a username was already in use I changed the order of the words or put a (.) in between them. 

Facebook Article on Changing Username

Here is a related Facebook Article about your username.  Thia information would be found in Facebook Help Center https://www.facebook.com/business/help/420650638385270?id=867336363714190

Last Words

Facebook is a good platform if you are a beginner at social media marketing.  Sometimes what you need to be successful is easy to find sometimes you need a helping hand or keyboard. 

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