Facebook’s self proclaimed land rush for vanity URL’s is past the initial stage of the people in the know getting their vanity URL’s locked down. What is interesting is that despite over 200 million users only 9.5 million URL’s have been claimed to this point. So roughly 5% of all Facebook accounts had enough knowledge and concern to stake their claim.
Among those, however, are those not looking out for their own interests other than trying to make a buck. These folks are the new age domain squatters but the opportunity is so much more pervasive. In most cases, there is no need to buy anything or provide any proof of anything either.
I write more about this over at Marketing Pilgrim with my post “Online Identity Land Grab On Across All Social Media”. See you there.
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