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Why doesn’t Facebook use nicer URLs?

13th October 2010

My answer to Why doesn’t Facebook use nicer URLs? on Quora

Just noticed this link: http://www.facebook.com/notes/fa...—so it looks like things are beginning to improve.

Posted 13th October 2010 at 12:50 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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