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Facebook Username And Facebook Url Available

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From: gosshollywood.com

Facebook Username Registration Opens Tonight. This a major step of Facebook history. And Facebook’s vanity URL promises to be a test for the fast of thumb. Grab Your Facebook Vanity URL at Midnight.

According to Cnet News, The servers didn’t crash, the system didn’t go haywire, and no locusts started spewing out of anyone’s monitors when Facebook let its 200-million-plus members reserve customized URLs on Saturday at 12:01 AM Eastern. 200,000 user names were reserved in a matter of three minutes, according to Twitter posts from Facebook employees.

“Well, that was anti-climactic. Worked, no bugs, and I got my name,” someone told me in an instant message. “Was exciting for a hot second though!”

I did notice some Facebook pages loading more slowly than usual. After all, the whole thing was hyped beyond belief, at least in certain circles. My Twitter feed was bogged down with “countdown”-related tweets and people proudly announcing their new URLs, but it’s unclear how many people who aren’t affiliated with the tech or media industries actually cared. Regardless, Facebook appears to have carried this out very smoothly, undoubtedly with beefed-up server power in place to streamline the process.

But it’s not over for Facebook. Now, the social network will have to deal with an invariably bloated degree of customer service complaints, as well as a likely stream of legal inquiries pertaining to copyrights and trademarks.

For the moment, however, it appears to have been even less eventful than the so-called “Twitpocalypse” that freaked out the blogosphere earlier on Friday.

Cnet News Also Updated:

We’ve heard from a few people who were trying to grab their first names and couldn’t–even though the names didn’t appear to be reserved already. One of them speculates that Facebook may have simply “cancelled out” some popular names.

According to Wired, You’ll finally be facebook.com/mememe! But the truth is, you’re not only too good to participate in an uncivilized landgrab for your own identity, you absolutely must do better to be player in the digital world.

Chances are you won’t even get the Facebook name you really want — clearly everyone won’t. A bunch have already been reserved for a select few, like those friends and family shares of that IPO you’ll have to buy into when it goes public and never recoup a dime while the insiders make out like bandits with penny shares (clearly I am suspended in a pre-dot-com bust fantasy world).

Michael Arrington got one of those insider offers, and joked that he wouldn’t be able to get “www.facebook.com/gossone.” But suppose he wanted “Michael” or his name was “John Smith?” (Turns out he was offered /mikearrington, but wants /michaelarrington and is rolling the dice like most of the rest of us).

No, I am not jealous, and here’s why: the mistake you made was not, a long time
ago, grabbing the domain name that best represented you.

You still probably can find something that works. Do that, stick with it and brand yourself on any social media site you want forever. I grabbed “johnabell.com” a long, long time ago and have used it to direct e-mail to a number of accounts over the years. It also directs to a personal blog that has weeds growing in it.

But with that domain you can create an infinite number of subdomains — you know, the thing that makes it “politics.msnbc.com.”

Think about it: wouldn’t you rather give out “johnabell.facebook.com” (which I have been able to for ages) than whatever you end up getting from the indifferent server that doesn’t care that you are Michael Jackson the beer expert and should be first in line, and not the former so-called Kind of Pop of the same name?

And, more to the point, wouldn’t it be something if anyone could find you intuitively without having to know what your name is at each and every place you might be? At the end of the day, you won’t know whereto find someone on facebook even with your fancy name until and unless they tell you. In a world where you have sub-domains on an omnipresent brand, people can figure it out.

Wondering how to find me on Linked In? How about Flickr? Twitter?

You get the idea. Sure, it’s nice not to be a number, like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=660483803. But queuing up for your own name is not cool — and imagine if they had tried to charge for the privilige. I will try for the Facebook name of my choice, of course — why not? I’ve done the same for a bunch of sites, half of whom I have forgotten and never use.

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