Facebook has announced that users can select custom URLs (also known as vanity URLS) from 13th June 2009. If you are using Facebook as one of your social networking tools for marketing and lead generation, please take!

Many social networking sites provide custom urls. For example, Twitter and MySpace provide this feature for a long time. Using a custom URL is very user friendly and easy to remember. Twitter.Com/MyName is much more easier to use and recollect, than Facebook.com/profile.php?id=2654801.

Here is the catch: if the Fan pages do not have more than 1000 fans, then custom url feature will not be available! Also the fan page must have been created before 5/31/2009. Once the URL is selecte, it cannot be changed.

Here are some more basic rules: Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (”.”). While usernames are currently available only for Romanized text, we’re looking at how we might support non-Romanized characters in the future.

Facebook is also asking people with a trademarked or protected name to email them here to avoid the obvious issues.

Please go this page on Facebook for a detailed FAQ.