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It’s official: I have no life.
Here’s proof. Last night, I …
- stayed up until nearly midnight to secure my vanity Facebook URL (it’s www.facebook.com/BillSheridan, if you’re interested);
- secured one for my wife, too, just in case she starts caring about stuff like that;
- wrote a blog post about it; and
- tweeted about it, because — who knows? — my Twitter followers might care about what I’m doing on Facebook, too.
Apparently, I wasn’t alone. I couldn’t help but notice that a number of my Twitter followers also proudly tweeted about their new Facebook IDs, and less than an hour after Facebook opened its vanity URL sweepstakes, “FB URL” was the 10th most popular topic on Twitter.
Besides emphasizing the fact that I’m a geek, this whole Facebook-vanity-URL thing brings up a couple of interesting points.
- I also wanted to create a vanity URL for the fan pages that I’ve created on Facebook, but when I tried to do so, I was presented with the following message: “Only pages with 1,000 fans as of May 31, 2009 are eligible for usernames.”
Apparently, only the cool kids get usernames for their Facebook fan pages, and that stinks. What stinks even more is the fact that my first thought upon seeing that message was, “How can I get 1,000 fans so I can get my stupid Facebook username?”
Which brings us back to the fact that I have no life.
- Facebook’s move to allow vanity URLs raises a larger issue of online identity — namely, how do you protect yours? Is creating a vanity URL on every social networking site the answer? Or does that hinder your ability to control your online identity? This FactoryCity post takes a closer — and thought-provoking — look at the issue.
Did you get your Facebook URL? If so, how do you plan to use it?