Comments on: Facebook username land grab: Yawn

Guess what? The servers stayed up and nothing exploded when Facebook's vanity URL program went live tonight.

[solu1978]

I got mine .. :)

[ace10134]

got mine. I don't use facebook much though.

[ruismorfy]

My first name have 4 characters, and the username should be atleast 5. :(
Then I noticed, there was a username John(4 characters) used by one of the facebook employees.

[bwrobertson2]

Yeah I saw that too. Double standard!

[MrZook]

Yeah, my first name is Ass... very upsetting requirements.

[fugawe]

I think the reserved names remain inactive until the "owner" activates it. I don't think any names are canceled out.

[schmidty313]

Got mine!
Went for "/billgates", didn't happen.

[karpenterskids]

haha...good one.
I wonder if someone snatched it up first, or if it was on the blocked list.

[computernerd2010]

i got mine yay! ok it's a little over done, but hey, it's facebook. at least its not myspace..btw when did facebook become popular again?

[TechnoMan475392]

When did facebook not become popular?

[ruismorfy]

lol, ahahahhaha.

[indiemixer]

Awww, I wanted QWERTY so badly! Went with something else and later got a message from someone that was mad that I took their idea. woops.

[unknown unknown]

one word, yawn.

Watch out, that's only 4 letters.

[karpenterskids]

Doesn't count. Needs to be 5 letters.

[mjconver]

Duhh! Facebook URL's have no true value. Search engines make all URL's irrelevant.

[PacGamer]

The one thing I feel sad about not grabbing is /index.html. But anyway, I'm just staring at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=facebook and refreshing. Quite hilarious.

[Bluecharmander]

damnit....

[Coonie1]

Got mine like an hour after it started. :)

[hmdz105]

got mine! I reserve the same name across twitter, myspace, facebook, blogger.com

[Sir_Sid]

You make this sound as if it nobody cared just because nothing broke. Props to them for getting through tonight without a hitch

[Duewester]

I have to agree. To think that the was a no brainer is a mistake. Facebook did a good job of setting up this evolution. I got the name I wanted even after 10 hours.

[SeizeCTRL]

concur... props to them for everything going so smoothly!

[Inconnux]

This site is beginning to look like a giant facebook ad.

[Terence_Chan]

It was really a simple pump-and-jump thing, I would agree too much ado about nothing. Precheck avails by typing in desired URL. Familiarize with the registration window and what you need to do.

The countdown clock hits zero, press on the continue button that suddently appears (1 sec), highlight name (2 sec), hit the confirm button (1 sec), see the page load (3 sec) - all in under 10 secs.

Done;
http://facebook.com/terence

The landgrabs for real URLs is where all the pain is.

[d4nowar]

"After all, the whole thing was hyped beyond belief, at least in certain circles."

So in the end it wasn't hyped much at all, if people in many other circles (such as myself) didn't notice any of this proclaimed 'hype beyond belief.'

[jpmccloud01]

To all the face bookers out there. What was the big deal. I just read this article and got curious about setting my URL on Facebook, went to the site and 1 minute later, ta da got a URL that works for me. I can understand if your name is john smith or another very common name like Jose ramerez or janet smith, but if your name is less common and you though something out there that matches easily, then what's the big deal. The answer is nothing, It's cool and all, but not a big hoop ty do.

[epursh]

I think the hoopty-do is for the business/group URLs not the personal ones. There's a 1000 fan/member minimum for getting a group or biz page URL, but that stipulation ends on June 28. So maybe another (yawn) land-grab is forthcoming. You bring the beer, I'll get the fireworks.

[loose_screw]

All the easier for your employer to find you and fire your lazy ass.

:-P

[SeizeCTRL]

but my employer has multiple facebook pages for different things and it's funny to see how many people are on facebook for the first hour and last hour of the day! my work doesn't care because of the way we use facebook to reach out to clients or to promote certain things.

[caffemacchiato]

No disrespect to the royalties...

www.facebook.com/mollywood

[mjn507]

why would you do that? except to attract attention to yourself to state 'yes. i am a moron'

[DrunkBender]

honestly, the "landgrab" of people finally being able to use their own names as a username is just long overdue, but kind of over hyped. YAWN is right... facebook finally stepped up to what most other sites have. no big deal except if you are famous or someone else has your name. ;-0