Facebook launched their vanity URL’s at the end of last week and it is reported that
200,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first 3 minutes
500,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first 15 minutes
1,000,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first hour!
3,000,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first 12 hours
Wow, the first thing that springs to mind is congratulations to Facebook in coping with that amount of traffic!
The second is as great as the vanity url’s are, I am not sure how useful it will be to me in my everyday life. I have rarely wanted to give verbally the address, only using …read more

An annoying part of using Facebook has been the address of your Facebook page – but don’t worry from tonight (PST) Facebook is offering vanity URL’s
“starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/.”
Now I can imagine there will be quite a landrush for certain names, so if you want yours…then you will need to be quick!