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As you may know, Facebook allows users to choose a "vanity URL," allowing easy linking to one's profile. However, once set, this URL cannot be changed and this was done for security reasons, understandably.

I have a friend whose now ex-partner set the URL to be "herfirstname.hislastname" without her permission. She tried to change it after this, but to no avail.

Has anyone successfully contacted Facebook and got them to either disable the name and revert back to an ID or change the name to another?

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    Has she actually tried contacting Facebook yet?
    – ChrisF ♦
    May 29, 2011 at 23:22
  • She's been waiting more than a week for a reply.
    – user11187
    May 30, 2011 at 13:30
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    What form did she use to contact?
    – phwd
    Sep 23, 2011 at 14:44
  • Is there any progress on this?
    – phwd
    Jan 25, 2012 at 8:41
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    I was told that it's Facebook policy to not allow the changing of URLs after they have been changed. I was told that she should delete and recreate her account. Very inconvenient.
    – user11187
    Jan 25, 2012 at 21:10

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I was told that it's Facebook policy to not allow the changing of URLs after they have been changed. I was told that she should delete and recreate her account.

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There is no direct process of doing this but there is a little hacky method to do this

http://opendummies.blogspot.in/2014/02/change-your-facebook-username.html

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    Please provide more than just a link. Explain what the method actually is.
    – Andrew Lott
    Feb 14, 2014 at 11:29
  • Hi Andrew, I have explained steps clearly in my blog you can go through still u didnot understand i will help in doing it :)
    – G J Kartheek
    Apr 30, 2014 at 9:06
  • These steps clearly don't work.
    – LOSTinNEWYORK
    Sep 18, 2015 at 4:33

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