Chris Page - Software Engineer » facebook http://www.chriswpage.com ... and student of Life, Philosophy, and Learning Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:46:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Facebook Username ( Vanity URL / Permalink ) http://www.chriswpage.com/2009/06/facebook-username-vanity-url-permalink/ http://www.chriswpage.com/2009/06/facebook-username-vanity-url-permalink/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:01:39 +0000 cpage http://www.chriswpage.com/?p=295 My wife and I found a baby sitter to watch our daughter, Gabriella, tonight, and we were able to enjoy a Saturday night out, finally!  Upon our return home, our sitter and good friend notified us that at midnight June 14th EST, Facebook opened up username based URL’s – or to us tech savvy people, vanity URLs or permalinks.  Facebook did already have permalinks to user profiles, but they were difficult to remember and non-arbitrary.

While many major companies were able to acquire their “facebook/mycompany” URL ahead of public release, I know many will be in competition to get theirs ASAP. Our sitter quickly rushed home to be ready to snatch up his – I was unfortunate to still be stuck using my middle initial:

facebook.com/chriswpage

With as many software people named Chris Page – I didn’t expect for it to be easy…but what really chaps me, is a dancer in Australia got to it first!  WTF?  Amber was equally disappointed in the commonness of our last name, when she too had to use her middle initial:

facebook.com/amberdpage

You can register your vanity URL at facebook.com/username.

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