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Old 06-12-2009, 04:18 PM   #1
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Default Don't Forget to Claim Your Username Tonight!

There has already been a topic created about this, but I wanted to remind everyone because the opportunity begins tonight.

Starting tonight at midnight (12 AM EDT) you will be able to claim your username on Facebook.

For example if you choose your name, a user will be able to visit your profile page directly:

http://facebook.com/yourusername

So be sure to be on to claim your name or whatever else you want! I'm sure it will pay off in the long run.

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Old 06-12-2009, 08:32 PM   #2
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Old 06-12-2009, 08:40 PM   #3
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How do we do this? Having trouble finding where to do it.
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Is there a blog with more info?

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Old 06-12-2009, 08:45 PM   #5
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Old 06-12-2009, 08:45 PM   #6
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Login to your Facebook account.

You should see a reminder there at the moment.

For more information visit their blog post on the subject: Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames | Facebook

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PS: When it comes time to claim your username, you must visit the following page: http://www.facebook.com/username/

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:02 PM   #8
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Christian Sawyer - Columbia, SC | Facebook

Got mine! I hope everyone else got theirs as well!

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:03 PM   #9
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Done and done!
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Snagged mine

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:06 PM   #11
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Wow... made it and snagged my name

I was out walking the dog after the Penguins won the Stanley Cup and I got back and checked my email messages. The Stomper Net guys told me about his happening and I went to the page to see the countdown at 36 seconds...

Made it just in time.... So now I own Mike Hill | Facebook

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Just claimed mine!

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:11 PM   #13
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Got mine too.

Do we need to change our profile here at WF for facebook as well to reflect the use of the username? Anyways, I changed mine.

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:12 PM   #14
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Just got mine too! It's easier to remember now.. lol

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:15 PM   #15
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Got Mine

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Snagged mine also - Wish I had capitalized my name though...Grrrrrrrrrrr

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:18 PM   #17
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Thank you very much! Now I just need to remember to visit Facebook once in a while.
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Old 06-12-2009, 11:19 PM   #18
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Remember it is a URL so you can capitalize it and it will still work!

http://facebook.com/ChristianSawyer

same as

http://facebook.com/christiansawyer

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Snagged mine also - Wish I had capitalized my name though...Grrrrrrrrrrr

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:19 PM   #19
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Hi Christian,

Thanks for sharing.

On my way to get my name as username

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Looks like the admin here at WF will need to adjust their facebook settings. I changed my facebook settings here and it still uses

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=norman.woo

which does not work. It just brings you to facebook's homepage. Now I don't remember my old facebook numeric ID.
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Old 06-12-2009, 11:23 PM   #21
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WOW...I can't frickin believe it! My full name was actually available. My name is so common too. I noticed everyone is capitalizing their names so I did that too. Tim, sorry to hear you missed that one. The good news is we can still find you!

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Thanks for the reminder... Just claimed my name.

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Old 06-12-2009, 11:29 PM   #23
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I snagged Mike Filsaime name...no just kidding..too bad you can't snag any niche names (keywords), unless you had boat load of face book accounts you could switch over, it seems that you had to have a face book account prior to June 9 of this month to able to add a user name, I'm glad I got mine..

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Remember it is a URL so you can capitalize it and it will still work!

Christian Sawyer - Columbia, SC | Facebook

same as

Christian Sawyer - Columbia, SC | Facebook
Yup - You're right. Thanks for reminding me as I was feeling a bit blue there.

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Got mine. Now all I have to do is use it with a website. I thought it was pretty cool for them to do this.

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I think I made a massive blunder.
I thought I would be a smart arse and call mine after a keyword phrase I am promoting but looking at it , it is irrelevant

DOH!!!

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I've never even bothered with Facebook before, just decided to sign up today
and grab my name. Turns out only members who have been there since June
9th or before can claim. lol.

Looks like am going to miss out on this one.


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Old 06-13-2009, 12:26 AM   #29
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My full name was taken, but got http://www.facebook.com/jasonrp which is short enough.

Thanks for the reminder, didn't know it was happening today.
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Thanks to Christian for reminding us - I got mine even though there are about 40something people on FB with the same name
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Old 06-13-2009, 12:37 AM   #31
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I'm happy I got my personal name, but my business name was snagged

Since I don't have more than 1000 followers on my fan page, (I just set it up about a week ago) I have to wait until 28 June to get a name. Totally bums me out.

Seriously, who would want to be queenbuzzy on facebook other than me????

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Alright I got mine...

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Old 06-13-2009, 01:26 AM   #34
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hmm... must be just us IMers who are bothering. none of my "normal" friends on facebook seem to care...

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I've got a nasty cold and can't sleep - so I thought I'd go register my facebook URL since it's 3am anyway :P

I managed to score www.facebook.com/nichemarketing (to promote my book, of course!)

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I read about this a few days ago and forgotten all about it. Thanks for the reminder!

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D'oh I was too late :-(

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I woke up (here in the U.K.) two and a half hours after 'opening time' convinced that my common as muck name would be a gonner. Amazingly it wasn't!

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Also got mine - Chuck Evans | Facebook

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Thanks a million for the reminder

With over 500 results for the name Peter Lawrence on Facebook , I was able to secure
facebook.com/PeterLawrence 5 minutes ago. Just amazing!

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Hi Tim -- you can still use the capitalized name even if you signed up with small case letters. I used small letters but can go to Linda Van Fleet - Chattanooga, TN | Facebook as well.

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Got mine. Thanks for letting us know.
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Default Urgent: Grab Your Name URL on Facebook!

This is IMPORTANT and you need to know about it RIGHT AWAY.

Tonight Facebook is staging one of the biggest virtual land grabs ever - the rush to claim your own name on Facebook.com.

You've heard of Internet Marketers claiming that the surge of traffic crashed their servers?
Well tonight there will be a server rush that has rarely, if ever, been duplicated on the Net. And you NEED to be part of it.
Right now if you want to send someone to your profile, you have to figure out a URL that looks something like this:

www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/585946540
(That's an inactive URL, BTW, so don't click it.)

But wouldn't you rather own www.facebook.com/yourname?
And this becomes even MORE important for Facebook Fan Pages (not your regular friend profiles, the pages you can set up to promote your business.) Can you imagine how devastating it would be to have someone else own your company name in Facebook?
In the past, it was easy to own your own name on Facebook, all you had to do was to spend a large amount with Facebook (think $50,000+ per month) or be a huge celebrity, and it was yours.

But starting tonight at midnight Eastern US time (that would be 9:00pm Pacific time) you can claim your name as a facebook URL. Plus, you can claim names for your business pages too.

But here's the catch - it's first come, first serve. Imagine a couple of hundred MILLION people all try to grab their name at the same time, and there will be some interesting server shenanigans occuring.

Here's what to do.

Login to Facebook then go to

Login | Facebook


You will see a form that will give you several suggested usernames, and

the ability to choose your own. Either choose one of the names suggested

or type in your own.

Repeat this process for any Facebook Fan Pages you administer, though

there are three catches: first, your page must have over 1000 fans prior

to May 31st 2009, you can't claim something generic like travel or

insurance, and you can't claim someone else's trademark.

In fact, if you have a registered trademark, I suggest you go to

Preventing the Registration of a Username | Facebook

right now to prevent others from grabbing your name.

If someone else has already has your name, get creative - add a period,

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And if no one can spell you name, you can still grab something good.
I got "teddemop"

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Dude your 11-hours late already. It's old news.

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Hey Jeffery:

Are you by any chance a StomperNet faculty member? I ask because your original post is an exact copy of an email sent out by Don Crowther of StomperNet on Fri June 12 at 7 pm eastern time. This is the email I received --

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This is IMPORTANT and you need to know about it RIGHT AWAY.


Tonight Facebook is staging one of the biggest virtual land grabs ever - the rush to claim your own name on Facebook.com.


You've heard of Internet Marketers claiming that the surge of traffic crashed their servers?

Well tonight there will be a server rush that has rarely, if ever, been duplicated on the Net. And you NEED to be part of it.

Right now if you want to send someone to your profile, you have to figure out a URL that looks something like this:


www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/585946540
(That's an inactive URL, BTW, so don't click it.)


But wouldn't you rather own www.facebook.com/yourname?

And this becomes even MORE important for Facebook Fan Pages (not your regular friend profiles, the pages you can set up to promote your business.) Can you imagine how devastating it would be to have someone else own your company name in Facebook?

In the past, it was easy to own your own name on Facebook, all you had to do was to spend a large amount with Facebook (think $50,000+ per month) or be a huge celebrity, and it was yours.


But starting tonight at midnight Eastern US time (that would be 9:00pm Pacific time) you can claim your name as a facebook URL. Plus, you can claim names for your business pages too.


But here's the catch - it's first come, first serve. Imagine a couple of hundred MILLION people all try to grab their name at the same time, and there will be some interesting server shenanigans occuring.

Here's what to do.

Tonight at midnight US Eastern time, login to Facebook then go to Login | Facebook

You will see a form that will give you several suggested usernames, and the ability to choose your own. Either choose one of the names suggested or type in your own.

Repeat this process for any Facebook Fan Pages you administer, though there are three catches: first, your page must have over 1000 fans prior to May 31st 2009, you can't claim something generic like travel or insurance, and you can't claim someone else's trademark.

In fact, if you have a registered trademark, I suggest you go to
Preventing the Registration of a Username | Facebook
right now to prevent others from grabbing your name.

If someone else has already has your name, get creative - add a period, or a dash, shorten it, lengthen it, or slap a number in there somewhere.

That's the drill. I'll be there at midnight, and I suggest you be there too.

And bring a book, the page refresh times may be really sllllloooooowwww.

Don Crowther
SMARTS Founder
StomperNet Faculty Member
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Old 06-13-2009, 10:56 AM   #47
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Little late but got mine; Eva B. Liland
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Ya know about the matter and already changed my user name. I guess I am lucky on this cause name which I use everywhere I got that.
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Old 06-13-2009, 12:25 PM   #49
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Thanks for the into, I claimed mine just now!


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I consider myself lucky enough to check on this thread, I managed to claim mine...
Appreciated for sharing this information.
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