Not Happy With Your Facebook Username? You Can Now Change It

When Facebook first rolled out custom usernames, we cautioned that much like a bad tattoo, you wouldn’t be able to undo them. That didn’t stop some people from registering ridiculous names or clearly trademarked terms that might be funny today but not good long-term choices.

However, it now appears that Facebook has updated their policy, perhaps after being inundated with requests to change poor name choices, or maybe just because registrations have slowed to a more manageable pace and they intended to add the option all along. In any event, users are now able to change their usernames by going to “Account Settings” and looking under “Username.”

As ReadWriteWeb notes, Facebook is still imposing some limitations, alerting you that “You can only change your username once” when you click the “check availability” link on the new setting. Realistically, Facebook is probably just trying to scare you into taking a name that’s a little less absurd than “rickroll” or “jackbauercouldwhoopchucknorris”.

Nonetheless, the name choices available to those who now wish to change them will be a bit less fruitful than before. Millions of usernames were registered within the first few days of their availability, and now that smaller brands can also get custom URLs for their Facebook Pages, the selection is even smaller.

Will you be attempting to change your Facebook username? Let us know in the comments.