Facebook To Provide Usernames

If you have logged into Facebook recently you may ar may not have seen this notice on the home page.

If you can lockup your own name as your Facebook username it will become a valuable online asset to you because of the following reasons:

It will be unique, no one else will have the same username.
It may become your second most valuable cyber asset next to your domain name, probably the first if you haven’t registered your name as your domain name.
Your Facebook address will look like http://www.facebook.com/username
Google will index Facebook URL’s so people will be able to “Google you” and find your Facebook link at the top of Google search results.
You’ll be able to use your Facebook address to help develop your own personal brand.

Facebook are attempting to prevent cyber squating on usernames by stopping anyone who didn’t have a Facebook account prior to May from immediately registering a username. This is good policy but we’re unsure how they can prevent current users from registering a popular name because allocation will be on a first come first served basis.

When the clock ticks down to registration kick off, those Facebook servers will be tested to their limits while possibly millions of people try to secure their usernames.

Good luck with yours and be sure you’ll regret it if you don’t try.