At Midnight, Friday night, facebook.com started offering what twitter and myspace have long offered-- personalized URLs for users. Within hours over a million were taken and by the end of the weekend, over 5 million had been grabbed.
I found out today, Monday morning, so my first choice robkall, like I have for twitter (www.twitter.com/robkall ) was already taken by a fellow in Ohio.
The facebook personalized URL selection user interface offered me some options and I tried out robertkall, which WAS available, and I'm guessing that rob-kall, which is what I used for myspace, was also available. But I went for shorter-- rkall. Really short, rk, was not permitted because the personalized url must include a minimum of five characters-- letters or numbers and probably
As long as you were a registered facebook user before facebook announced the program on June 9th, you can claim your personal URL. Once you claim a URL you can't change it.
Click here to claim YOUR personalized facebook URL.
http://www.facebook.com/username/
