Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames
Starting at midnight on Saturday the 13th, Facebook is going to allow its members to
customize their URLs with user names. I have a feeling that a lot of people with common names are about to be screwed.
Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the Web. People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names. Your username will have the same privacy setting as your profile name in Search, and you can always edit your search privacy settings here.