You Have Three Days To Pick Your Facebook Vanity URL.
You Have Three Days To Pick Your Facebook Vanity URL. Choose Wisely, Or You’re Screwed.
by MG Siegler on June 9, 2009
What are you doing this Friday night? Going to a bar with friends? Going to a movie? Wrong.
If you’re a real web addict you’ll be sitting at your computer waiting for the clock to strike 12:01 AM Eastern Time. That’s when Facebook’s new vanity URLs are going to go live, and the landrush to get one will begin.
And it’s going to be a landrush because it’s a first-come, first-serve basis, as Facebook writes today. It looks like Facebook will give you a bunch of options based on your real name, but you can also pick your own vanity name.