Facebook – Vanity URL

So Facebook have just released their vanity URL feature. So now instead of having some elaborate confusing URL, you can simply choose yours username. For example I chose just my surname (I got in early) so my username is www.facebook.com/bakhos.

The reason I chose this was that I wanted my full name, when searched, to link to this blog in the search engines, not my Facebook page.

I can imagine all the people taking all the “make money online”, “Internet business” names and it will become extremely transparent after a little while. The shame is that now when people do populat internet marketing searches we are going to end up with Spam pages or link farms via Facebook. I think we see enough of these on the net already but lets see what happens.

Any reasons why you have chosen the username you did?

If you havn’t got your username and are already a member of Facebook then I recommend that you do, mainly so you don’t end up suffering from some opportunistic creep stealing your name. You can do it by visiting Facebook Username page.