Thanks to an online petition made via change.org  promoted by NW7OR, starting from today facebook allow to add your own ham radio call-sign as altenate name and have it displayed in your public profile page
This should allow others to look for your your by using your QRZ.
This is how appears now my Facebook profile page… you can notice my callsing IW5EDI just below my name.
How I did it ?
Simply by editing my profile page and adding my QRZ as Alternate Name
What’s new ?
Well, the true is that an alternate name was possible and accepted in Facebook also before today, but looks like at Facebook someone changed the rules
Yes because those rules since yesterday where quite strict, not allowing to add numbers or all capital letters.
Here you can read a snapshot of the on-line help, that evidently need to be updated by the folks at facebook.
Searching
As a short note, i can tell you that at time writing, if you look for me on facebook by typing my call, you will not find me right now.
I belive the cause is that Facebook need to reindex their data and this may take time… Will try to update this post with latest news.
in the mean time, if you want, you can add me as friend in Facebook.
Update:
Starting from mid august, is now possible to lookup call-sing within facebook.
Just select from the top facebook search field the People Named prefix and type the call sign !
Great, but a search for the callsign didn’t work (can’t find you with your callsign)…
73 de HB9FOM
Thanks for sharing the info Simone, 73, Bas
That’s true, I suppose because facebook re-indexing will take time.
I’ve updated my profile only a few hours ago.
That makes sense
we will see…
Thanks for your research!
The process on adding your call sign has changed in recent releases but still simple to add once you get into the settings page