Day: June 13, 2009

A few quick facts about Facebook’s user-names.

• Facebook is not giving all the user names, for some reasons. (See my earlier post here).
• Facebook usernames are not case sensitive, xyz and ‌xYz and XyZ are the same thing
• Facebook usernames ignore dots, as gmail does. So x.y.z and x.yz and xyz are the same thing.

I just posted my brand new Facebook URL in my last post. I’m posting again to launch a protest here. When I tried signing up for facebook.com/basit , it said its already taken. To make sure I dont miss the other combinations, I signed up for /basit.ali and go it.

Now when I try facebook.com/basit, nothing shows up, means its not taken. If the name is not taken, why they dint let me take it? I protest Facebook, I portest!!

Facebook has started giving away usernames so that you can have your public profile placed at www.facebook.com/. A few minuts ago when the signing up opened on first come first serve basis, I thought I’ll get “basit” but that was already taken. Now all my friends can access me through http://www.facebook.com/basit.ali 🙂