Vanity URLs availible for Facebook

The popular social networking website facebook has decided to offer vanity URLs to users.  This will allow users to choose a custom username for their profiles instead of the random sequence of digits in the URL.  Custom profile locations will be availible from  June, 13th at 04:01am GMT.

 

For starters custom names will be restriced to a minimun of five characters restricted to alphanumeric characters only.  Head over to http://www.facebook.com/username to join the countdown and be the first to secure your username.