Fix Your Facebook Employer Links

A problem that I recent have had (and, by looking at their profiles, many of my friends) is that when you enter an employer on your profile, it sometimes links to one of the new Community Pages instead of their official page.  This is relatively easy to fix, if you are willing to use Firefox.

Now, I don't use Firefox very often because of its bloatedness, but there are a few toolbars and addons that I like to use every now and then.  One of them is the Web Developer addon.

After you install this addon, you'll notice a new toolbar.  If you have no particular need for this addon, feel free to remove it later.  Here's the step-by-step process of what you need to do to get that employer field to link to your employer's official page.

1. Go to the official Page of your employer.  You should see a series of numbers in the address bar after the last "/".  If you don't see the numbers, click on their link that pops up when Search tries to autocomplete.  If they still don't come up, find a post by them and click their name.  Copy that number.
2. Now, go to your profile Info tab and edit your Education and Work.
3. On that toolbar that you just installed, click "Forms" and then "Display Form Details".  Please don't freak out here.  You'll see a bunch of highlighted text and grey boxes popup all over the page.
4. Find the employer that you want to edit.  You will see a grey box labeled something like <input name="work[employer][id][0]">.  I found that sometimes just clicking in that box moves the cursor to the white one, so highlight the numbers that appear in the grey box.  With your mouse button still held down, press [CTRL]+V (on PC's, I don't know the Mac shortcut) to paste the number you just copied into the grey box.
5. Fill out the rest of the information as you desire, and click Save Changes.

Congratulations!  Your employer listing is now linked to the correct page!  Shame on Facebook for messing this up.