Don't Forget to Claim Your Username Tonight!

How do we do this? Having trouble finding where to do it.

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.

Norman

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

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.

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.

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..

Istvan:

Surely, you kid right??

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

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

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

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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Thanks, I was forget it, I will go to do it now!!!:p