facebook username Options

[Tung]

how do you feel about this

Soon you will be able to have a username
Starting on Friday, June 12th, at 9:01pm, you'll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile.
Check out the Facebook Blog for more information or send yourself an email with the details.

[emberfly]

Useful, but stupid at the same time.

Facebook will be an ugly version of Xanga. WOOHOO. Facebook was always stupid

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Hate it. Lack of usernames is what made facebook bearable.

[kryogenix]

The f*ck... why are they making this shit, I'd rather them make an unlike button.

[Simba]

dibs on kryogenix

[keep-the-fire]

I think it'll be ok.

I already know what should I keep my username :D

[Gigi]

Stupid. Who the hell would search for you by your username? Someone who knows you by your username ought to know your real name, so it's totally unnecessary. Now I have to deal with the xXsExiiChIcKaXx usernames that will ultimately flood Facebook. God, what next, profile customization?

Also, have to fight off the other 461 people with my name so I can get a semi-decent username on Friday, one that won't embarrass me if someone important happens to search me up. Ugh.

[emberfly]

Now I have to deal with the xXsExiiChIcKaXx usernames that will ultimately flood Facebook.

So true >.<

[datass]

Stupid. Who the hell would search for you by your username? Someone who knows you by your username ought to know your real name, so it's totally unnecessary. Now I have to deal with the xXsExiiChIcKaXx usernames that will ultimately flood Facebook. God, what next, profile customization?

Also, have to fight off the other 461 people with my name so I can get a semi-decent username on Friday, one that won't embarrass me if someone important happens to search me up. Ugh.

agreed. i really dont want people changing their names to usernames, their real name used is why people like faceobook.

[kryogenix]

For real, I dunno what I'm gonna do. On one hand, I'd like to keep my internet identity separate from my offline identity. If Peter Parker had facebook, he wouldn't sign up with the username SP1D3RM4N for fear of having Aunt May hunted down and killed by the Green Goblin.

But then again, I don't want some random jackass taking kryo and soiling mah good name. Batman didn't like it when random dudes wore ghetto ass batman suits and fought crime in his name. I don't want random ninjas posing as me (I'M LOOKING AT YOU STEVEN). So I gotta think about protecting mah turf.

[fameONE]

Next you'll be able to put glitter graphics on your Facebook profile and jack Facebook layouts from Createblog.

[superstitious]

Couldn't you just opt not to use it? *haven't read article*

[kryogenix]

Next you'll be able to put glitter graphics on your Facebook profile and jack Facebook layouts from Createblog.

On second thought, this might be a good thing. I hope CB gets a flood of new users.

[fameONE]

On second thought, this might be a good thing. I hope CB gets a flood of new users.

THIS.

I went back to YTMND for the first time in a couple years and the amount of activity there was damn near intimidating. I had a hard time keeping up in the debate topics because so many people were responding at once with well presented rebuttals.

[Joanne]

For real, I dunno what I'm gonna do. On one hand, I'd like to keep my internet identity separate from my offline identity. If Peter Parker had facebook, he wouldn't sign up with the username SP1D3RM4N for fear of having Aunt May hunted down and killed by the Green Goblin.

This made me LOL.

[datass]

haha me too

[Blyat]

Lol noce kryo Xd

yeah it's stupid, i dont want a username
are they like pernament?

[AimeeLynn]

I really don't like the fact there is going to be a username now.
I feel it's going to become tacky and slowly turn into a myspace or something. Where people will use stupid unnecessary signs and symbols with their username.


unlike button ftw

[emberfly]

I really don't like the fact there is going to be a username now.
I feel it's going to become tacky and slowly turn into a myspace or something. Where people will use stupid unnecessary signs and symbols with their username.


unlike button ftw

Indeed. We definitely don't need another myspace.

Let's all migrate back to Xanga!!! WOOHOO.....



Xanga, where you can blog about total bullshit and have it featured on the front page the next day.

[Mikeplyts]

I don't have a facebook.

[Maccabee]

why are they changing stuff! Its so annoying!

[AimeeLynn]

why are they changing stuff! Its so annoying!

I think they are changing things so users won't be bored with the site.

[emberfly]

I think they are changing things so users won't be bored with the site.

Too late

[rnicron]

the point is obviously being missed. like tori said, it'll be in the url. this means, that if you know someone's username, you can type it in, rather than searching. it's A LOT EASIER than remembering the number id someone has. it has nothing to do with the actual name on your facebook.

[Gigi]

^ Yeah I get what the point is, but it doesn't cut down on the time at all or make it more convenient for me. Personally I have no trouble typing in someone's name in search if I need to go to their profile. This is just a useless addition IMO.

I'm not really against it, since this would be all great if people had respectable, readable usernames, but it's the inevitability of annoying usernames that pisses me off. And what are the chances that I remember all of my friends by username?

It's also the dilemma between squatting for my previous awesome username or picking something with my full name. Numbers were just easier.

[emberfly]

^ Yeah I get what the point is, but it doesn't cut down on the time at all or make it more convenient for me. Personally I have no trouble typing in someone's name in search if I need to go to their profile. This is just a useless addition IMO.

I'm not really against it, since this would be all great if people had respectable, readable usernames, but it's the inevitability of annoying usernames that pisses me off. And what are the chances that I remember all of my friends by username?

It's also the dilemma between squatting for my previous awesome username or picking something with my full name. Numbers were just easier.

I agree.

Also, you have to pick a username that you would be comfortable with your boss/co-workers/family seeing.

edit:

which is a total pain in the bum.

[emberfly]

Does anyone remember the original Facebook, without any news feeds or anything and you had to be invited by someone from your school? That was all so simple.

I liked it. The news feeds are effin' annoying and a total invasion of privacy.

[Gigi]

Does anyone remember the original Facebook, without any news feeds or anything and you had to be invited by someone from your school? That was all so simple.

Yes, exactly! Stalking people is fun though. Although it's like an unspoken rule that the people most worth stalking usually have their profiles set to private, lame.

[rnicron]

Does anyone remember the original Facebook, without any news feeds or anything and you had to be invited by someone from your school? That was all so simple.

better yet, who remembers thefacebook.com, before they dropped the 'the'?

[emberfly]

better yet, who remembers thefacebook.com, before they dropped the 'the'?

meeeeeeeeeee.. but even at that time, you could still type in facebook.com and it would redirect you.

[rnicron]

pish posh

http://media.www.theeagleonline.com/media/...ad-716749.shtml
"I don't think it's just a trend, but I don't think Thefacebook will continue for many years to come."

if only some people were right...

[LittleMissSunshi...]

i think it's day. lol dumb myspace and facebook competing with each other.

[Jennifer]

Gah.. well.. this is going to suck
This is why I loved facebook! None of this stupid URL crap! Now its just going to become another home to prepubescent teeny boppers who have a strange facsination with random capitalisation and the letter x.

[fameONE]

better yet, who remembers thefacebook.com, before they dropped the 'the'?

That shit was so cash.

[kryogenix]

[rnicron]

Gah.. well.. this is going to suck
This is why I loved facebook! None of this stupid URL crap! Now its just going to become another home to prepubescent teeny boppers who have a strange facsination with random capitalisation and the letter x.

meh. yeah, i think someone of the usernames will be really shitty, especially the crunk people who have their name set weird like 'straWBErrii shoRcakEE' or 'william irunthisshit smith'. but, i think it'll be more useful for others. fb is so huge now that you could probably even land a job from it. some companies even check your fb, so how convenient is it to share an easy url instead of telling them to search you. honestly, i think yall are giving it way too much hype. i don't see it being a big deal.

[kryogenix]

the last thing I want is for some company monitoring my online behavior

[rnicron]

i wouldn't either, but that's what it has become.

[hypnotique]

Next you'll be able to put glitter graphics on your Facebook profile and jack Facebook layouts from Createblog.

DONT JYNX IT

[Tung]

http://www.facebook.com/tungvo


hehehehe suckaaaa

[rnicron]

facebook.com/coolestmanalive
i had to

[SuckDickNSaveLiv...]

Doesn't matter to me. My username is going to be something gully where you CBers can't find me.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

What the shit is that?

[Gigi]

Totally forgot about the Facebook usernames, so I ended up with my second, crappier choice. I went the serious route rather than the very tempting awesome route. Oh well.

[Teesa]

^it's okay gigi :)

Does anyone remember the original Facebook, without any news feeds or anything and you had to be invited by someone from your school? That was all so simple.

YES. that's how i first got on facebook because my friend had to invite me lol.

http://www.facebook.com/teesa

[Gigi]

Hot damn you guys got good usernames!

Btw, just realized that the periods in the usernames make no difference. That is really irking me. It gives the false impression of more combinations of usernames. *smh*

http://www.facebook.com/gigi.tc.wong

[Joanne]

I got it a couple hours after it started... I guess I'm lucky that there aren't too many Joanne Leungs around.

http://www.facebook.com/joanne.leung

[gojira]

f*cking Carl Talbot took gojira. fb wouldn't allow batman

[kryogenix]

I took one of the pre generated ones that involved my name. I was tempted to try index.php though.

[hypnotique]

I got my name as soon as the countdown when to 0.

I picked hypnotique, because i wanted to make some other person miserable seeing as that user name is usually taken on every other site..

[gojira]

dawg, all these names are taken or unavailable. f*ck facebook.

gojira, godzilla, batman, brucewayne, mickeymouse, mickey, shiro

[pandemonium]

Click here Bit*h darn.. chaos was unavailable.. and chaotic was taken.. fu*k that bit*h

[tokyo-rose]

I don't understand how my first choice was taken when I'm just about the only Cristy Y. that comes up when you search my full name...at least, I think I am. I'm not sure. I got another one that I'm fine with, though.

Some of my friends have gotten usernames that are normal words. Those aren't going to look good when possible employers look them up in the future and see a silly URL.

[rnicron]

a lot of the things that i wanted weren't available apparently, but now when i go to look, they aren't taken. i couldn't really care what a future employee thinks of my username on fb.

[missnh]

mine is michelleyue

[emberfly]

I got my name :D yay for having a weird name.