Meta is bringing usernames to Fb Teams

Meta has long required Fb customers to submit below their actual names (with some exceptions), however no less than for Fb Teams, the corporate is now providing new choices. Members of Fb Teams will now be capable of take part below a customized nickname and avatar, relatively than being pressured to make use of their actual identify or submit anonymously.

You’ll be able to set a customized nickname through the identical toggle that permits you to create an nameless submit, Meta says. Nicknames need to be enabled by a gaggle’s directors, and in some instances individually authorized, however as soon as they’re, you possibly can swap between posting below your actual identify or a nickname freely. The one different limitation is that the nickname must adjust to Meta’s current Neighborhood Requirements and Phrases of Service. When you set your new nickname, you can too choose from a number of customized avatars, which appear to principally be footage of cute animals sporting sun shades.

Teams are one in every of a number of areas of Fb that Meta has frequently tried to tweak in the previous few years to convey again customers. In 2024, the corporate introduced a tab that highlighted native occasions shared in Fb teams. Extra not too long ago, it added tools for admins to transform non-public teams into public ones to try to attract new members. No single change could make Fb the middle of younger individuals’s lives in the way in which it was within the early 2000s, however letting individuals use what quantities to a username may encourage Fb customers to discover new teams and submit extra freely.