Facebook Goes Vanity

Beginning at 11:01pm CDT Friday Facebook will allow its users to claim a name as part of their profile page's Web Address i.e. http://facebook.com/johndoe. This will allow users to replace the randomly selected string of numbers currently assigned to each profile. Businesses and Fan pages will be able to adopt such names as well, but they will have had to have been on the site by May 31st with at least 1,000 fans at that time. It's all first come first served. To avoid squatting only users who have joined before 3pm Tuesday will be able to sign up for usernames initially. All else will have to wait until June 28th. By the by, MySpace has provided this since their launch.