web 2.0

Snag your own Facebook username Fri night

Starting at 12:01AM Eastern Time (9:01PM for us West Coasters), Facebook is opening up the floodgates to let people choose their own usernames. First come, first get.

So now you can get straight to your FB page with a URL of http://www.facebook.com/johnsmith for example. If you’ve got an accent in your name (or want one), then you’re out of luck for now.

Choose well! If you read the FAQ, you’ll see that you can’t edit it, change it or transfer it once you choose your username.

Facebook attracts an older crowd too

Web 2.0 is coming home to older users as Facebook’s demographics show that for example, women over 55 are one of its fastest growing groups.

Not surprising as Facebook has become the solution to a problem people didn’t really think they had – how to keep in touch with friends and family without expending a great deal of time and money.

200 million users currently and growing at a tremendous pace, it also wouldn’t surprise me to see FB get targeted by governments for various reasons – reigning in/keeping an eye on their citizens, law enforcement, propaganda, information dispersal, etc.

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