Facebook Vanity URLs

Did you get yours yet?

Last night Facebook opened up the possibility for members to have their own URL e.g http://facebook.com/username.

There’s been a bit of a gold rush to acquire these and unfortunately I missed out on my preferred option.

As a result I’ll miss the opportunity to have a single reference across the Internet. You might want to dive in asap and claim yours. There’s no telling what the implications for web identities might be in the future.

To be honest I’m not a big fan of Facebook, but do see the value of a common profile address and have been quietly working toward that.

In my case getting to the top of search results isn’t simple, because the other Steve Reeves was a very popular movie actor back in the 50’s and early 60’s. Ask Google about Steve Reeves and you’ll get pages of articles about him.

So I’ve chosen stevensreeves for my profiles at LinkedIn, Ezine Articles and Google profiles. I also post articles at our two blogs under username stevensreeves, and these all get indexed by Google. And I have stevensreeves as a username on Twitter.

Basically I’m the same guy across all these services, which is important for personal branding, and in our case, building the Front Office Box brand.

Unfortunately when I figured out how to get to the pages on Facebook where vanity urls can be claimed, somebody else had already nabbed stevensreeves so I had to make do with http://www.facebook.com/stevesreeves.

This is bound to bite me in the ass somewhere down the line:-(

BTW I found access to the vanity URL allocation page by going to http://blog.facebook.com

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