Facebook Vanity URL – Historical Day for Online Networker

Facebook Vanity URL – Historical Day for Online Social Networker

Facebook the largest social-networking site in the world, said members registered new user names at a rate of more than 550 a second after the company offered people the chance to claim a personalized vanity URL.

Facebook started accepting registrations at midnight New York time on a first-come, first-served basis. Within the first seven minutes, 345,000 people had claimed user names, said Larry Yu, a spokesman for Palo Alto, California-based Facebook. Within 15 minutes, 500,000 users had grabbed their unique user name.

Facebook, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, allowed users to select one unique name, letting them create a Web address for their Facebook profile, such as http://www.facebook.com/david. Earlier, addresses typically contained a sequence of numbers. Each user name needs to be unique, which created a mad rush among users to grab their preferred names before anyone else.

It was like having an online battle – waged, won and lost — in literally a few seconds. John vs. John. Michelle vs. Michelle. Brian vs. Brian. In each of these names only one could be the lucky winner. It was fierce competition on Facebook with tons of traffic. However according to inside news, good planning helped them to handle high traffic.

The question to ask is it fair? Well Facebook has been making the announcements since May and gave plenty of time to all users to plan ahead. In life only action takers get the maximum rewards. People said it was an experience for them to wait for midnight New York time to grab their vanity URL. From USA to Asia people were counting down for the moment to grab their URL.

The awesome news is now the users can substitute their chunky URLs which were a big jumble of numbers and letters, with elegant vanity URL. This is quite simple for distribution to your network, friends and family. For example if the user is Stephenie, she can tell her friends, family and co workers her facebook.com/Stephanie vanity URL.

The aim is also as Facebook says, to make it simpler to find user profiles using search engines such as Google, Yahoo and other search results.

Mark Zuckerberg 25, founder and creator of Facebook must have never estimated his site to be a changing landscape for human socializing. Facebook, whose investors include Microsoft Corp. Accel Partners, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 as a social-networking service for Harvard University.

Recently on Oprah show, Zuckerberg said he never ever expected this exponential growth for Facebook. A self made billionaire at the age of 25 is an incredible achievement. The company generates revenue through social advertising. They are expecting a 70 percent revenue increase this year.

Mark Zuckerberg said he has no plans to sell the company, and spokesman Larry Yu said in May that Facebook has no plans to go public.

Well now today in the world of global socializing you can now have your own identity. Social networks and social media are here to stay and it is your opportunity to optimize this wave.

Dainaz S Illava
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