Comments on: Facebook vanity URLs were overdue. Period. http://old.deanjrobinson.com/sidenote/facebook-vanity-urls-were-overdue-period/ pipe delimited life Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:41:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dean.j.robinson http://old.deanjrobinson.com/sidenote/facebook-vanity-urls-were-overdue-period/comment-page-1/#comment-82665 dean.j.robinson Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:29:14 +0000 http://deanjrobinson.com/sidenote/facebook-vanity-urls-were-overdue-period/#comment-82665 Agree about the time issue, it caused problems for a lot of people. We got a little lucky here in Australia (strange, because we usually get screwed) as the landrush started at 2pm on Saturday arfternoon, which was a great time. Even still the basic firstname.lastname combo, dean.robinson, was already taken, but that was fine because I didn't actually want that anyway. Agree about the time issue, it caused problems for a lot of people. We got a little lucky here in Australia (strange, because we usually get screwed) as the landrush started at 2pm on Saturday arfternoon, which was a great time. Even still the basic firstname.lastname combo, dean.robinson, was already taken, but that was fine because I didn’t actually want that anyway.

]]> By: Alex Leonard http://old.deanjrobinson.com/sidenote/facebook-vanity-urls-were-overdue-period/comment-page-1/#comment-82663 Alex Leonard Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:11:32 +0000 http://deanjrobinson.com/sidenote/facebook-vanity-urls-were-overdue-period/#comment-82663 Had just this conversation with people on Twitter/Jaiku yesterday. Being that those of us on GMT time got screwed with the username 'landrush' starting at 5am I missed my chance to get facebook.com/alexleonard and of course tried to get alex.leonard but discovered what you did. Why bother? Why not just say only characters and numbers? Or alternatively, make full stops count as per gmail, and why no underscores or dashes? I've had to go with /alexanderleonard which isn't ideal, but unfortunately my parents, in their supreme wisdom chose to call me by my second name and so my middle initial is actually the name by which everyone knows me! Had just this conversation with people on Twitter/Jaiku yesterday. Being that those of us on GMT time got screwed with the username ‘landrush’ starting at 5am I missed my chance to get facebook.com/alexleonard and of course tried to get alex.leonard but discovered what you did.

Why bother? Why not just say only characters and numbers? Or alternatively, make full stops count as per gmail, and why no underscores or dashes?

I’ve had to go with /alexanderleonard which isn’t ideal, but unfortunately my parents, in their supreme wisdom chose to call me by my second name and so my middle initial is actually the name by which everyone knows me!

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