A vanity URL is a Web address that contains the name of a user or product. On Facebook, for example, John Smith's vanity URL could be facebook.com/johnsmith. Your ...

A Facebook page, much like a personal Facebook profile, can be given a unique shortcut username. This username shows up in the Facebook page's URL, following the ...

This looks really, really bad. An avid Facebook user named Harman Bajwa says that his Facebook vanity Url – Facebook.com/Harman – was unceremoniously revoked ...

Facebook today explained how the link shim, a tool built by the company's Site Integrity Team in 2008, works to protect users. Every time a link is clicked on Facebook, the link shim checks that URL ...