Facebook announced about launching vanity URLs on June 13th.
On Friday evening, that is, 13 June 2009 will witness a huge load on the Facebook servers, with people from around the world to try to the best Facebook URL, they can either sell or for themselves. The social networking website had promised that they will start as soon Vanity URLs around a month back, and they lived up to its promise.

As of now, Facebook generates irrelevant URLs for your profile, gibberish with numbers at the end of the profile.php in the address bar. This is supported by a choice of user taste and can be easily enough to spread. It should be as simple as someone saying your Twitter address. This step should be a lot of noise in the social networking field, the other competitors, such as Orkut to sit and notice.Facebook ’s Blaise DiPersia wrote in his blog posts that “Facebook your new URL as your personal goal or at home, in the Web.

Since Facebook want to protect the server is always flooded with fake and bogus accounts, the re-sale only with a vanity URL Fancy, it is a condition for it. User name will be granted only to Facebook users, more than 1k fans in their list. Along with that the user name should have at least five characters long, and once the user name and registered, can not be changed. To select a user name wisely is very important here.

Along with that, to prevent any kind of cybersquatting, Facebook vanity URL of this function is only to accounts registered before 3 PM Eastern Time, today in the time 12:00 a.m. to 12:01 clock on 13 June, evening. If the clock is ticking to 12:01, the new account. Facebook has also retained rights to revoke, if you have a username guilty against misuse or marks of any kind can wait and see what kind of happened Hullabaloo Friday ..

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