Did You Get Your Facebook Username?
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Friday night/Saturday morning was the big event, where millions of users jumped on the bandwagon of claiming their Facebook usernames. Over 3 million names were registered in just 24 hours — that’s unreal!
A lot of people thought the website would crash, or lag, but it didn’t. It appears everything went smoothly without a hitch.
I was fortunate to get my name (Facebook.com/ChrisJacobson) without any hassles.
Mashable posted the top 15 silliest URLs that were claimed:
1. Mirror, mirror: http://www.facebook.com/moc.koobecaf.www
2. Coder: http://www.facebook.com/default.aspx
3. It would have been cooler with .html: http://www.facebook.com/index
4. Cat ran over my keyboard:
http://www.facebook.com/alksjfalskjfoiwefalsdlasfaslleseouaiwejndlsknjkdfs5. The entire QWERTY keyboard:
http://www.facebook.com/qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm6. Try harder: http://www.facebook.com/aaaaaa
7. …that’s more like it: http://www.facebook.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
8. …but still not as crazy as this one:
http://www.facebook.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa9. 4chan: http://www.facebook.com/marblecake
10. Keep dreaming: http://www.facebook.com/JackBauercouldwhoopChuckNorris
11. Nice try: http://www.facebook.com/usrname
12. Facebooksquatting, anyone? http://www.facebook.com/FIFA10
(compare to http://www.facebook.com/fifa09)13. Can you fix my Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/techsupport
14. I’m no stranger to love: http://www.facebook.com/rickroll
15. Someone had to do it: http://www.facebook.com/thecakeisalie
My favourite is the /index URL… hilarious! I’m sure we’ll see many other cool ones in the days to come. One thing I don’t get is why anyone would want any of those usernames for their personal account. After all, you can’t change your username and it’s forever. To each their own I guess.
Meanwhile, there was a bit of drama on Friday when some guy named Patrick Ruddell stole Facebook.com/ProBlogger from Darren Rowse (the real ProBlogger). There was a bit of an exchange of words on Twitter between the two, and I’m sure Darren will file a copyright complaint with Facebook to get the name for himself. Not very cool on behalf of Patrick.
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June 15th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I got http://facebook.com/brutusreport
No problem getting that one.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I agree that we’ll find many more comical usernames pretty soon. It’s funny to see how creative people get with their domains and usernames
June 25th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I got my name.
Update: Darren got facebook.com/problogger
June 27th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
I didn’t get exactly what I wanted but I got my last name which was good enough for me.