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Facebook has bowed to pressure to allow personalised URLs to replace the current cumbersome addresses used to identify each user.
http://www.macuser.co.uk/news/255547/
I'll be there for the scramble, I just hope no-one cybersquats my username. (8+|

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okenobi wrote:
All I know so far is that Mark, Jimmy Olsen and Peter Parker use Nikon and everybody else seems to use Canon.
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Well you obviously. You're a one man vortex of despair.


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5am scramble :shock: I'm glad I've got a small child who'll wake me for it.

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I've only ever done it with a chicken so far, but if required I wouldn't have any problems doing it with other animals at all.


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saspro wrote:
5am scramble
I'm hoping that's 5am U.S. time.

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okenobi wrote:
All I know so far is that Mark, Jimmy Olsen and Peter Parker use Nikon and everybody else seems to use Canon.
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Well you obviously. You're a one man vortex of despair.


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timark_uk wrote:
saspro wrote:
5am scramble
I'm hoping that's 5am U.S. time.

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The great Facebook username scramble will begin at 5am BST (12.01am EDT) on 13 June.


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I've only ever done it with a chicken so far, but if required I wouldn't have any problems doing it with other animals at all.


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I missed the BST bit. Bugger. I fear cybersquatting will occur, though I am up at 6am on Saturday because I've to be in work, so it's possible I can get the one I want. We'll see.

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okenobi wrote:
All I know so far is that Mark, Jimmy Olsen and Peter Parker use Nikon and everybody else seems to use Canon.
ShockWaffle wrote:
Well you obviously. You're a one man vortex of despair.


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I rather suspect I’ll miss this.

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I couldn't care less.

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I wonder if their servers will take the load. Perhaps that's why it's at an odd time, well for us anyway.

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I can now be found at facebook.com/SciFiGeek.
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There didn't appear to be any server load issues when I claimed my username at about twenty to six this morning.

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okenobi wrote:
All I know so far is that Mark, Jimmy Olsen and Peter Parker use Nikon and everybody else seems to use Canon.
ShockWaffle wrote:
Well you obviously. You're a one man vortex of despair.


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I'm now gavin.lewis - not an uncommon name yet it's all mine!

There was no scramble, but there was no link to be found without googling and looking for the facebook blog, so I'm not that surprised.

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I'm facebook.com/liamrickerby kept it the same as my twitter

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I’m paul.dunning :-)

A fairly uncommon name, but I do know that my doctor’s surgery has another prson with my name on their books. They rang me with his blood work results once :o

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Shockingly enough, I'm okenobi. But really, what's the point :roll:


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Yeah, I grabbed my name as well. Not my username, nothing witty.
Tip: That amusing email address you had in university? Don't use it on job applications or CVs.

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But really, what's the point :roll:
If you don't have a particular web presence or persona that's important to you, then I guess there really isn't a point.
For those that do - in which group I include myself - there is a vested interest in making sure you get the name you want.

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okenobi wrote:
All I know so far is that Mark, Jimmy Olsen and Peter Parker use Nikon and everybody else seems to use Canon.
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Well you obviously. You're a one man vortex of despair.


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