Facebook Vanity URL: An Oxymoron or Personal Branding Genius?
Check it out, from the fine folks of Facebook:
Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You’ll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.
Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (“.”). While usernames are currently available only for Romanized text, we’re looking at how we might support non-Romanized characters in the future.
You best believe I’m going to be staying up late on Friday night to claim my Facebook prize. Are you?
Those servers are going to crash and burn so hard man…
peace|dewde
For realz. Those poor servers don't stand a chance!
I sure hope that this goes over as well as they planned…but how many will actually do it? I personally think this should have been done a long time ago…It seems as though MySpace had the leg up on them in this regard.