Vanity.
Written by Erin on June 13, 2009 – 4:20 pmDid you get your vanity Facebook URL? The Friday night geekfest resulted in 200,000 vanity URLS within the first 3 minutes according to Mashable (the start time was 12:01 EST Saturday morning).
I logged on at about 9:05 PST last night and acquired Facebook.com/ErinNorton. There are a 125 other Erin Nortons on Facebook, so I considered myself pretty lucky.
While I went with my full name to continue my personal branding efforts, others disregarded the future of their online identity and picked completely random user names and the daring few “facesquated” on friends, foes and brands.
Here are my top 5 random Facebook user names:
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