Victory is mine!
For the past week facebook, and we geeks, have been counting down to the release of facebook user names! I know, I know; what’s the big deal? I’ve got user names on other sites like my twitter account; @pandapoo for example, but facebook uses real names so why do facebook user names matter so much? Well like it or not, for most of us facebook is our ‘home on the web’ and it’s an important part of both social and casual-business networking too. The problem for a long time has been the question of how to give out your facebook URL; do you give out the whole thing; numbers and all? Create a tinyurl or just don’t give it out at all? I often opted for the latter. I’m lucky in having an uncommon name; ‘Georgie Hammerton’ shows up just me on facebook so I stuck with letting people find me by name, but what about ‘John Smith’; how are his friends meant to find him? The answer is a username!
From 5:01AM (GMT) this morning we were able to jump on facebook.com/username and register the user name of our choice, in the first 3 minutes 200,000 user names were registered. And I, Georgie Hammerton, fastest fingers in the west, was up at 4:30am, counting down with my fellows on twitter, and at 5:01AM managed to snag facebook.com/georgie I’m a very proud man. My girlfriend, with whom I’m on holiday with at the moment, was not as impressed when I woke her up to ask if she wanted to get her username after some persuasion she managed ‘cat.bebb’ and is a happy lady (not as happy as me with ‘georgie’ *grin*.
I briefly spoke to the guy who got facebook.com/usernames, after a tip from Eddie, but he wasn’t happy 5 minutes later when facebook had decided to make that URL redirect to facebook.com/username, he’s stuck with his own name now; so old fashioned.
If you got yours already then please share them in the comments and if you haven’t then GET A MOVE ON!
I can finally say good-bye to http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=272701731, and hello to facebook.com/georgie hmm.. time to order some new contact cards me thinks!
Ciao!
Congratulations
I however was not so lucky – some fast fingered Australian got mine lol
so its good old paulmitchell1989 for me!
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Well standards aren’t all bad eh? :)
I’m facebook.com/hollybw. I was going to go for facebook.com/holly but at the last minute decided that a hell of a lot of people refer to me as Holly BW instead. And thats slightly cooler :P
I was conveniently awake at said time, so snatched up my username nice and quickly.
I also now need new business cards. I really chose a crap time to get them! I’ll just give all the old ones to my nan :)
SUCCESS!
Not getting Holly seems like scardy-pants-ness to me! lol. I was just going GO GO GO and clicking all of the buttons which looked like they said ‘confirm’ :D
It’s always good to get new Moo cards; maybe we just need to wait until we have some new info before getting them done.. nah! New ones now! :)
CLEVER……
Yes! What did you get?
I couldn’t get “Fadi”, too few letters :( I settled on “fdada” – how boring.
pfft.. you snooze you loose Mr Dada :) still.. it’s not bad is it really? :)
I didn’t snooze! MY NAME IS ONLY FOUR LETTERS! I COULD NEVER HAVE IT!
Siiiiiiiggghhh.
Okay.. calm down dear, it’s only a URL :) that is a shame though; they changed their rule for facebook.com/mark which is Mark Zuckerberg’s profile, Facebook’s Creator and CEO. Naughty double standards; women! lol
Well I’ll never use it but I’ve nicked your surname!.. facebook.com/hammerton :-)