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Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Lindsay — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:25:17 -0000

My name is very common and inevitably taken as a vanity url choice... went with http://facebook.com/thereal...

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Facebook Applications — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:17:44 -0000

Facebook URL is quite good, But if someone takes your name already then it may difficult to choose unique URL for your choice. Thanks for this info

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

jithinkr — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:47:34 -0000

Didn't face book let Darren Rowse, author of problogger blog, have his vanity url reset to facebook.com/problogger. I think during the rush, /problogger was taken by someone else. Later on Darren talked to the person and had his vanity url change. So the other person also got an opportunity to reset his facebook vanity url.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

zafarali — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:29:02 -0000

Facebook will and should eventually offer a url reset. just like twitter which changes your username too. fortunately facebook uses real names thus making username changes less destructive. In twitter you loose all ur @replies

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

zafarali — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:25:59 -0000

very very very very unfortunate

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

zafarali — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:25:27 -0000

unfortunately yeah

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Meme — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:33:14 -0000

The vanity url was erased between 5am this morning and 8, because I stumbled this to friends and only 2 were able to see the vanity url.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

cst — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:57:58 -0000

They took that one down.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Produle — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:14:49 -0000

facebook should have done in this first place

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Shaun Dunne — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:31:35 -0000

Having her picture flashed all over the world is the price you pay for owning a facebook and uploading pictures.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Phil — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:27:05 -0000

relax you're all giving her a hard time just because she likes anal. That's not fairl :(

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

shane — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:53:42 -0000

I didn't know there were other examples of this. I actually didn't pay attention to any of her information. I definitely agree that it got out of hand very quickly, but that just shows the scope of perception. I failed to recognize that people would take it to revealing her name and ridiculing HER about it. I actually sent a few more more messages than whats shown in the picture, suggesting ways that she could look at her address bar and see that it was her username, and tried to be helpful.

Now on the one side I definitely recognize and agree that it went too far, but i hope you realize that I did not do anything to intentionally harm her reputation. to be quite honest, since her url is i.love.anal I didn't even know they would both direct to the same place.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Aleksandre Asatiani — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:45:10 -0000

I think facebook should allow people to change usernames, at least upon request. I suspect this anal loving girl is not the only one with that kind of "problem"

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

iTbay — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:44:21 -0000

perfect vanity for Perez Hilton - the one I call Mugatu http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Shanky Baba — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:56 -0000

How big deal it is for FB to give a changeable vanity URL.. twitter has it... Linkedin has it... WTF is wrong with FB!

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

teenager's mum — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:00:09 -0000

it's regrettable you used a high school junior's page as the example for this post, which has now been RT-ed far too many times. while ppl may think they're being helpful sending her all those messages, imagine her embarrassment at having her picture flashed all over the world (i'm typing this from new zealand) combined with the error, whether her own accident or someone's very mean-spirited "prank", and an in-box full of "guess what?" emails. the right thing to do would have been to have used an adult's page - it appears there's plenty. if not that, then you should have had the courtesy to give her a head's up so she could have deleted her page before the whole world (and presumably, her high school class) got a look at her face.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

shane — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:45:53 -0000

actually (being the one who had this conversation last night and am amazed at how crazyily it spread) this isn't written on her wall, its just a conversation. You can send messages to anyone on facebook.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Dustin Coates — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:30:52 -0000

I'm calling this fake. It's obvious, isn't it? Look at the conversation. The guy is posting on her wall and she has no idea who he is. You've got to be friends with someone to post on their well. C'mon, we all know that.

And it's suspicious that you can't see how many friends she is, isn't it?

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Les — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:26:19 -0000

I sent her a message. Hope she gets it. Shame on you if you didn't have the courtesy to contact her and give her a heads up.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Σχολή Χορού — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:01:30 -0000

Well ... could be worse but still an embarrassment.

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Kevin Montgomery — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:26:47 -0000

Pete,
That is a good point. Well done.
Kevin

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Joe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:24:00 -0000

lol

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Anuj Seth - Twitdom — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:53:54 -0000

You can change it on Twitter and FriendFeed for sure! :)

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

Anxuna — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:36:49 -0000

I hope,it's an unfortunate spelling mistake

Re: Facebook Vanity URLs Are Cool, But They Can Also Ruin The Fun

nullvariable — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:32:36 -0000

she's in high school still...wouldn't surprise me that a classmate would think it's funny to pull something like that. Or a vindictive ex