Comments on: Why I'll be boring with my Facebook username

By: Cesar Torres

Cesar Torres — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:39:06 +0000

@johnerik: Wait, you have a fan page? Sign me up!

@atxryan: It’s tough, I know. Ultimately, I think it’s better to facilitate connections by being able to say “I’m ‘cesart’ everywhere online.” Ultimately, just choose which networks you use the most and are most important to you. Mine are Twitter, Facebook, Gchat and YouTube once I get my iPhone S.

From a graphic design perspective, I also imagine business cards and other paper collateral moving towards ways to display this kind of information neatly. How cool would it be to hand someone a letterpressed card that only says “/cesart” dead-center?!

By: Ryan Joy

Ryan Joy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:24 +0000

You make a good point about blurring the lines between Twitter and Facebook usernames. However, I’m still struggling whether I’ll try to grab ‘ryanjoy’ or ‘atxryan’. I already have the well-established atxryan as my personal online brand, but I’ve been slowly moving over to establish my name as my brand. I regret choosing atxryan as my LinkedIn permalink name.

By: /johnerik

/johnerik — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:48:15 +0000

I’m with that.

Remember, however, that these unique addresses also apply to Pages.

My strategy and targets in order:

1. /johnmetcalf – hardest to get – will redirect to my actual profile.
2. /johnerik – easy to get – will redirect to my fan page. (might swap 1&2)
3. /metcalf – hard to get, but not that big a deal – will redirect to a fan page.
4. /johnerikmetcalf – super-easy to get – will redirect to a fan page.
5. /conjunctured…
6. /startupdistrict…

…now, how can I get with this “partygirlsally???”

By: Ashley Brown

Ashley Brown — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:46:27 +0000

I definitely see this as the catalyst to an overall branding of every person online.For those of us on multiple networks, it allows us to be further market our “namebrand” and for those without, they will begin to think about the implications of branding their profile.

Or people will choose ridiculous things like “partygirlsally.” Either way, this is big.