Facebook has launched their own URL Shortener – FB.me. If you go there it will basically redirect you to Facebook.com. So if your Profile URL is say – http://www.facebook.com/Starbucks, now you can even write it as http://fb.me/starbucks and it will still go to the exact same page.
Facebook currently doesn’t allow you to make any short URLs using this new url shortener. But if you use facebook mobile, you may start noticing long urls such as – m.facebook.com being replaced by fb.me.
Eventually I think Facebook will launch this site-wide and automatically shorten all URLs posted in Facebook with FB.me. Now the real question is how is this going to be any different from other URL shortner like bit.ly or su.pr?
Well I hope Facebook will be able to innovate and take this whole URL shortening to the next level. For instance, some social bookmarking sites like Digg & stumble upon has their own URL shortening service that adds a toolbar on top of the page that you are browsing. With that on page toolbar, users can make a comment or even take an action (i.e. Stumble/Digg on this case). So if Facebook sort of goes along the same line, I believe users will be able to interact with the links even more with their “Likes” & “comment” feature.
What do you think?
Very good information….Thank you…
Sadly, this isn’t working anymore. Any news?
Yes you are right. This doesn’t work anymore. But fb.me does go to facebook.com.
The real key will be if FaceBook pays attention to who clicks the fb.me links which then provides very valuable insight into how often someone shares a link you end up click and then sharing as well. This is good for taste generating because it means you can start to detect who has similar taste. It might be your best friend or it might be a distant friend who is about to not be so distant as more of their activity begins to appear in your mini-feed and you find yourself having so much in common with an acquaintance your brought closer together with through facebook.
fb.com still works!! check out http://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/11/did-you-know-facebook-short-urls-already-exist/ – you can use fb.com/username. :D :D
I like this URL shortener tool very much, it is very helpful where there is a limit to write words and u have to give the long URL.