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Facebook | Username
- quizbiz 17y agoAnyone here planning on registering under a username/alias rather than your real name?
- mcav 17y agoAlso, are you planning on putting a dot in it? first.last vs firstlast?
- quizbiz 17y agoMy first attempt will be only my first name. If my 3 letter first name does not catch then first initial then full last.
- mcav 17y agoFrom the Facebook blog post: > "Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (".")." Might be better to go for your latter option first.
- Dauntless 17y agoThat's a bit of a disadvantage for people with short first names, but I can understand it. I wonder how many names will be mike.the.great and so on
- jkincaid 17y agoThe dot shouldn't matter. As with Gmail, it looks like it treats it the same way (try going to Facebook.com/z.uck vs Facebook.com/zuck)
- Dauntless 17y agoI tried writing my 3 letter name like : a.b.c so the link would have been abc . But it still didn't let me unfortunately.
- graywh 17y agoThere's a minimum length. It probably ignores the periods just like Gmail does.
- quizbiz 17y agoI got my name without the dot, but it still works with a dot.
- hellweaver666 17y agoI'm planning to try for my full name, there's a couple of significant people on the web with the same name as me so I'm hoping to get to it first. Also have an extra browser open with my wifes account loaded up, hoping to be first to get hers as well. We're both going for firstnamelastname without periods, hyphens etc (although we're using the 'short' version of our firstnames - Andy & Steph - rather than the full version.
- zck 17y agoCan you actually register under a fake name now, or just have a different one publicly viewable? Back in 2006, I got kicked off of Facebook for registering as the pseudonym I used on the internet. It wasn't anyone else's name, but there'd be no way for them to know that. Have they changed their policies? Edit: their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (TOS) says you have to sign up under your real name (section 4.1): http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf
- johns 17y agoRight now this is just used for vanity URLs, it doesn't change the name you're registered under.
- dazzawazza 17y agoIf you are prepared to use a non ascii character in your user name you can often register weird names.
- raganwald 17y agohttp://facebook.com/obiefernandez http://facebook.com/obiefernandez
- vaksel 17y agogoogle is still available, although I wouldn't register that since I doubt you'll get to keep it long
- Dauntless 17y agoI think dictionary words don't work, I guess maybe google is a verb and isn't available :P
- falsestprophet 17y agoI got my first.last name, which I share with 3 students at by Big 10 school and well over 500 members of Facebook.
- shizcakes 17y agoI beat out a senator, astrophysicist and author to claim my name.
- Batsu 17y agoI got my first.last as well. If it said I could change it I would have tried a million other things, though.
- Dauntless 17y agoI didn't know I couldn't change it afterwards, so I ended up with something a bit weird... but lets just not talk about that :P
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- Devilboy 17y agoDidn't give me the option to use just my first name, I guess I might have just missed out on it though.
- chaosmachine 17y ago"awesome" was taken :(
- jrnkntl 17y agoI couldn't choose my first name; "Jeroen" (common dutch name) saying it was not available? Odd because there is no profile on facebook.com/jeroen , well, there are worse things in life.
- vaksel 17y agoWhat sucks is that www.facebook.com/username/ doesn't work...wtf
- ashu 17y agoThis has been fixed.
- robryan 17y agoHmm, kinda sucks my name got taken minutes in.
- staunch 17y agoThanks for the submission. I'm happy to have a username I like.
- jrnkntl 17y ago"notavailable is not available"
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- Dauntless 17y agoIt's quite fun to see who took a link, like http://www.facebook.com/hacker.news http://www.facebook.com/hacker.news or http://www.facebook.com/the.great http://www.facebook.com/the.great . Well, at least for a few minutes, after which you forget about it.
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- migpwr 17y agoWere popular names awarded randomly? I went for my name within seconds and it was already taken. It seems like they would just take all requests and randomize for a winner...
- shizcakes 17y agoMany common first names are taken by facebook employees - including the facebook.com/andrew above, or facebook.com/brian.
- spencerfry 17y agoInteresting! Dots have no significance. http://www.facebook.com/spen.cer........fry http://www.facebook.com/spen.cer........fry is the same as: http://www.facebook.com/spencerfry http://www.facebook.com/spencerfry
- kyro 17y agoIt's times like these when I am very thankful for my unique name.
- russ 17y agoexcept it's 4 characters =P
- dshah 17y agoWas able to get my desired name: http://facebook.com/dharmesh http://facebook.com/dharmesh Oddly, that makes me happy.
- rms 17y agoI was so quick to get my desired username, kfischer, that I didn't even think of the username I should have taken... rupertmurdochsucks.
- nirmal 17y agoWas able to pickup my first name: http://facebook.com/nirmal http://facebook.com/nirmal
- jrockway 17y agoDamn, I had been trying to remember this all week, so I could get "jrock", but I forgot and someone else got it. Of course you know, this means war. (Oh well, I don't even use Facebook.)
- Edinburger 17y agoSo...anyone tried to sell one of these yet? If I was prepared to re-register on Facebook, ask my friends to move over to the new account and clear my photos, presumably there isn't really any other reason why I couldn't eBay the vanity URL. I think the most likely problem would be if Facebook spotted what I was doing and decided to close the account. Has anyone tried it yet? EDIT: I see some for sale on Assetize already. Will be interesting to see how this turns out.
- cpr 17y agoAnd case has no significance. ChrisRyland is the same as chrisryland (and the same as chris.ryland, thanks to period ignorance).
- mindhacker 17y agoLooks like all the names with the string "php" in them are disallowed.