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Facebook URL's
Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:34 AM
So Facebook now has the fancy customized username URL's. Hmm fancy, I guess. So now everyone has the ability to go to facebook.com/(username) and fight amongst themselves in a giant cluster#$^! again just like.....MySpace....the social network that when mentioned we now shudder with utter contempt. Slowly but surely the YouTwitSpace/Face/shut up meme is slowly making it's tiny little trek up the hill.
I'm pretty sure Facebook is starting to lose it's mental grip. Eventually at some point Facebook will have a schizophrenic episode (We own your @&!*), punch it's users in the face (Ok you can have it back!), and complain how the cops are out to get him because he accidentally ate Henry the 3rd's cupcake....(Don't sue us please!) (disorganized much?)
What's so wrong about having your username in Facebook be =?9281231 ....I don't care really. That's why you search the networks, browse the people, Facebook certainly has a better structure when it comes to finding people, but URL's in my opinion really aren't the answer. There will be plenty of people who will take URL's that have nothing to do with them, or we'll also have all the annoying immature URL's like .com/yourface (really?). Maybe there's something I'm just missing, or I'm still a tad delirious from all those shots of vanilla syrup I had before but this is something that doesn't help much at all in my opinion.
Also a cupcake sounds good right about now...mmmm sugar.
I update my Facebook more than other sites (aside from Twitter). I generally try to point people to my FB profile more than other social networking sites. The longer URL was more difficult to remember & type to others to share. Having a customized URL makes it alot easier to link to the profile and remember it off the top of my head. So for that reason I like it.
Obviously there are other "arguments" why it is not a good thing. But I don't care to partake in any. So hit me up on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/digitalobscurity :)
As many of friends put it (and myself for that matter) there is an indignity with being identified by a number. Patrick McGoohan would have agreed, if I may quote him with apologies, "I am not a number, I'm a free man." While the vanity URL craze got a little out of control with MySpace, in Facebook's instance they suggest that you use a variation of your name. I nabbed /bmcnamara which is very nice. The general idea is that many people, especially the new elder users of Facebook want to be able to rattle off a simple URL then just saying "Search John Anderson." Still, you make a valid point in that people will pick URLs that have nothing to do with them and will come back to haunt them later.
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I have my Twitter hooked into Facebook, and thus I update via Twitter only, but strangely browse others statuses via Facebook.
The new URL so far have almost no meaning to me. I set one up (I can't remember what I used right now), but I suppose I can see putting this on a business card. Hey, does this mean I need to get some new business cards?