How to link to your Facebook profile: public profile link and NOT public profile link
Update:
You can find your Public Profile link this way:
- Click Settings/Privacy Settings
- Click Search
- Scroll down to “Public Search Listing”
- Click “See Preview”
You’ll be taken to your public search page and can copy the link from there.
Original Article:
Slowly Facebook has disabled direct links to profiles. Originally you could link to
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=000000000.
All you had to do was copy and paste the URL from your address bar while you were logged into Facebook and you were good to go!
But the Facebookers disabled that.
If you want to keep all your information private, but want to post a link to add you as a friend, now you can do a search and limit it by id number:
http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=000000000
To view the above link, you still have to login. If you don’t want users to have to log in and don’t mind submitting your profile to search engines, now you can create a public profile and link to it
http://www.facebook.com/p/First_Middle_LastName/000000000
I could not find anywhere that would list how to make this URL. I looked around and had to try the schema by example. It is as listed above with your profile id attached to the end instead of the “000000000″
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January 8th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
For reference, you can get your public link inside Facebook without hacking one together (though the method above still works)
1. Click Settings/Privacy Settings
2. Click Search
3. Scroll down to “Public Search Listing”
4. Click “See Preview”
You’ll be taken to your public search page and can copy the link from there.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Thanks Jason. I’ll edit my over a year old post. The Facebook UI is often like Apple–they put things in a good place, but they aren’t always the easiest to find.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Thanks for posting this. (I think it’s kind of sad that I had to google “facebook public profile” because I couldn’t find it on Facebook proper.)
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Thanks for that, we have been fighting with facebook and fan pages and trying to ge them all linked up.
sorted now
Dave
October 8th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Thank you!