Get Your Own Google+ Vanity URL
Unlike Facebook and Twitter, Google+ doesn’t offer vanity URLs for user profiles, making it more difficult to share your Google+ Profile with your friends. Instead, Google uses a long string of numbers to denote users (e.g. 117691391504351341685).
The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since many Google Accounts are linked to Gmail accounts).
Of course, this leads to a problem: you don’t want to be telling people to type in a long string of numbers to find your Google+ Profile. That’s where Gplus.to comes in. This simple little app lets you create a short URL for your Google+ page, making it easy to share with your friends. Mine, for example, is Gplus.to/EliteTek, which is much easier to remember than a random strong of numbers.
Gplus.to fills a gap that Google+ doesn’t currently address. Should Google give users the ability to create vanity URLs, or is it too much of a privacy concern because of its connection to Gmail? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
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Yea it’s a shame we won’t have a better way to share the address but I sure don’t want spammers getting my email address. They may come up with something later though.
I like it that google has developed such an application. It was very difficult to share links with that long sting of numbers,
I think its a very neat security feature. Those guys at google definitely know to stop spammers.
I would rather use gplus.name it makes more sense… Nice post though..