So, I just logged onto Facebook and saw that they are implementing “vanity URLs” so users can claim their www.facebook.com/username.
The details are spelled out on the Facebook blog here. Personally, I go by Zoe Anna on Facebook right now and do not have my last name listed, which immediately led to me think - what should I claim my username as? Do I want to claim Zoe Anna or perhaps the more “professional” Zoe Gruenberg (my last name)?
I searched Zoe Anna to see who I was going to be in competition with come Thursday; there are several other Zoe Anna users out there in the intranets. Zoe Gruenberg, however, I’m the only one.
Despite the fact that there are other Zoe Anna’s out there, I figured that I might as well claim “Zoe Gruenberg” because, while I am currently “Zoe Anna”, this is a only a recent change and instead I’ve been listed as Zoe Gruenberg for the bulk of my time on Facebook.
But then I thought: WHAT IF I GET MARRIED?
Regardless of my own personal opinions on this, when heterosexual women get married, they generally take their husbands’ last names - and yes, change their names.
So, if I claim my Facebook vanity URL as Zoe Gruenberg and happen to fall desperately in love, get hitched and proceed to change my last name all while having a Facebook username is still en vogue - am I stuck with Zoe Gruenberg forever?
Women who change their last name with marriage have the opportunity to legally change their names on their driver’s licenses, tax records, credit cards, gym memberships, cable accounts - you name it. But, it seems like Facebook might not have worked out all their contingencies with this whole username fiasco.
If I marry a man by the last name Smith, there is no way that I will be able to change my username. Did Facebook just inflict a glass ceiling on the heterosexual woman who decides to change her name in marriage? Can a woman evolve and make changes in her private life while simultaneously using Facebook as her primary social network?
For Facebook to survive the Twitter hysteria, it seems as if the site is making more and more changes to intertwine and adopt the luxuries of Twitter into its site. Hence allowing users to have a vanity URL. But perhaps they didn’t think this one out too well…
Is the Facebook scarlet letter of the future going to be www.facebook.com/themarriedzoesmith or uh oh … www.facebook.com/thedivorcedzoegruenberg?
Hmmm…
Will Facebook vanity URL’s put a damper on my “married-life”?
So, I just logged onto Facebook and saw that they are implementing “vanity URLs” so users can claim their www.facebook.com/username.
The details are spelled out on the Facebook blog here. Personally, I go by Zoe Anna on Facebook right now and do not have my last name listed, which immediately led to me think - what should I claim my username as? Do I want to claim Zoe Anna or perhaps the more “professional” Zoe Gruenberg (my last name)?
I searched Zoe Anna to see who I was going to be in competition with come Thursday; there are several other Zoe Anna users out there in the intranets. Zoe Gruenberg, however, I’m the only one.
Despite the fact that there are other Zoe Anna’s out there, I figured that I might as well claim “Zoe Gruenberg” because, while I am currently “Zoe Anna”, this is a only a recent change and instead I’ve been listed as Zoe Gruenberg for the bulk of my time on Facebook.
But then I thought: WHAT IF I GET MARRIED?
Regardless of my own personal opinions on this, when heterosexual women get married, they generally take their husbands’ last names - and yes, change their names.
So, if I claim my Facebook vanity URL as Zoe Gruenberg and happen to fall desperately in love, get hitched and proceed to change my last name all while having a Facebook username is still en vogue - am I stuck with Zoe Gruenberg forever?
Women who change their last name with marriage have the opportunity to legally change their names on their driver’s licenses, tax records, credit cards, gym memberships, cable accounts - you name it. But, it seems like Facebook might not have worked out all their contingencies with this whole username fiasco.
If I marry a man by the last name Smith, there is no way that I will be able to change my username. Did Facebook just inflict a glass ceiling on the heterosexual woman who decides to change her name in marriage? Can a woman evolve and make changes in her private life while simultaneously using Facebook as her primary social network?
For Facebook to survive the Twitter hysteria, it seems as if the site is making more and more changes to intertwine and adopt the luxuries of Twitter into its site. Hence allowing users to have a vanity URL. But perhaps they didn’t think this one out too well…
Is the Facebook scarlet letter of the future going to be www.facebook.com/themarriedzoesmith or uh oh … www.facebook.com/thedivorcedzoegruenberg?
Hmmm…