Alright the countdown is on. Tonight at 11:01 EDT Facebook will be allowing users to have Unique URL’s as compared to the old profile ID number. i.e. http://www*facebook.com/profile.php?id=199105917 versus now you’ll see http://www*facebook.com/kylehannah (or whatever you/I choose for a username)

I’ll get more to the dirty tricks in a bit, but this is pretty huge for the most part. If you actually remember Myspace, not many do anymore, they had this same setup which was actually quite useful. People used to put their myspace URL on business cards and be able to easily give out their address to friends and family. Facebook hasn’t been quite this easy, that is until tonight of course.

This is sure to create quite a bit of chaos tonight as those who can SEE the potential here will be counting down the seconds to choose their unique username. As for those who can REALLY see some potential, well facebook has already setup some preventive measures against *us.*

Here’s a direct quote from their blog:

If you signed up for a Facebook Page after May 31 or a user profile after today at 3 p.m. EDT, you may not be able to sign up for a username immediately because of steps we’ve taken to prevent abuse or “squatting” on names.

So in other words, no rushing to setup tons of accounts to potentially snag some very unique and appealing usernames. God knows this was the first thing that crossed my mind. What can I say, us marketers just see $$$ all over when something like this comes about. If you don’t see any $$$ coming about then it’s likely you’re just another average web surfer, which of course there is nothing wrong with that.

This is the next major leap for facebook though and is sure to make way for some major viral effect to take place. Be interesting to see what the traffic increase and new accounts created will be.

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