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“We expect to offer even more ways to use your facebook username in the future,” said Facebook designer Blaise DiPersia, in a blog post announcing the program. Facebook has always prided itself on being a place where people use their real First it started with drag queens — Facebook began eliminating the accounts of female impersonators who weren’t using their legal names in their profiles. The policy quickly spread to target transgender users and Native Americans, all who may go by So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his facebook username and password. Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for "A review of this information revealed text files containing, inter alia: username and passphrase credentials hacked accounts for multiple social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter and VK, which stands for the Russian site VKontakte. Facebook has milked the vanity URL deal for all its worth until this point so why not try to get a little more mileage out it, right? Over the past few months Facebook has been allowing individuals to choose their username but has put the rather strict Here are some things to bear in mind about username squatting on Facebook. I'd be interested in hearing about people's experiences with this — whether it turns out to be streamlined and effective or frustrating and a pain. Let me know and I'll update. .

We knew that Facebook had bigger plans for vanity URLs/usernames when it opened them up for registration this summer. The popular bet was that it would create a mention/reply system similar to Twitter's @replies. That was shot down this week when Facebook We'll email you a reset link. Choose an available username to complete sign up. In order to provide our users with a better overall experience, we ask for more information from Facebook when using it to login so that we can learn more about our audience Worse, what if they ask you to hand over your facebook username and password? You might laugh and say I would never do that, but what if you really, really need a job? Many of us are desperate for work at the moment, so it is no surprise that some feel In addition to that, being on Twitter or Facebook is a great way to increase your knowledge the next step is signing up and choosing your username. While you can change your username (@username is called handle in Twitter terminology), it is not .