Comments on: Facebook giveth to journalists...well, not yet

In a clever PR move, Facebook reserved journalists' names for their vanity URLs. But then they didn't turn them on.

[louisgray]

Rafe, the issue is definitely still there, and I'm glad you got a response. I found "louisgray" reserved, yet it looks to be parked. Can't wait to at least say it's all done.

[mdg1019]

Dude, you seriously need to get a life if you think having a Facebook vanity URL has any importance at all. Suck it up and stop whining.

[lkcor]

Meanwhile, your colleague, Molly Wood, lost her Facebook url to a squatter within minutes. FB dropped the ball on that one. Now some dipstick kid has /mollywood for the rest of his life.

[rafe]

That sucks! And it looks like that URL is going nowhere, oddly.

[krizhek]

Looks like she tweeted that the account has been transferred to her. :D

[wotten-1]

Hey, Rafe---at least on cnet and Twitter you have whatcha want. Me? Not so much ---here on cnet but what really gags is it's because of ME. Myself! I want <wotten1> as my user name here as it is in other venues but because I messed up during registration, all attempts to get that are stymied (couldn't remember original password) so each subsequent attempt met with an "it's already taken, doofus" which eventually drove me to a hypen-nated (like that?) version: <wotten-1>. Yuk. So count your blessings --- Facebook may yet make you smile meaning you don't hafta rant, Rafe. ;)

[GainesvillePR]

Journalism 101: You shouldn't take gifts.

[jchairy]

This seems like a pretty petty thing to write/worry about, doesn't it?