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Joel Johnson

AT 9:34 AM
Friday June 12, 2009

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The Facebook Username Debacle

Anil Dash:

June 13, 4:04pm: A white guy named David discovers every variation of his name on Facebook is already taken, and finally reconsiders the condescending contempt he's always had for black people who give their kids unique names. This tiny bit of racial reconsideration is the only unequivocally good news to come out of the Facebook Usernames launch.

7 Comments

zikman

#1 – 9:49 AM June 12, 2009

man, that was freakin sweet. I'm gonna read that list everyday and I probably won't be disappointed

Anonymous Anonymous

#2 – 11:03 AM June 12, 2009

I'm changing my name to LeMonjello.

sworm

#3 – 1:34 PM June 12, 2009

Are there any other free domains?

I know .tk, but anything else?

Anonymous Anonymous

#4 – 5:59 PM June 12, 2009

Nice piece of writing...wish I'd written it.

Mike

#5 – 9:19 PM June 12, 2009

I got my name as the username.

You don't need 1,000 Fans to get your own username.

Your Facebook account must be registered before June 9 as the only criteria.

Mike

Blake

#6 – 5:15 AM June 13, 2009

Can't change your username once you've "confirmed" it!

littleoslo

#7 – 10:14 AM June 13, 2009

i dun really get it. wot to do with his name david

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