No matter how valuable your username is, you are renting it without renter's rights. It's the equivalent of people building multi-million dollar businesses on land they don't own and can be kicked off of without notice or reason given.
It's even more insane that people use this for communication too and open themselves up to censorship, easedropping, governments listening. Social networks are good for connection but, relying on them and making an archive of sensative information in them is risky.
I make the initial connection in the social network for the network benefits and try to move people to better more secure and reliable channels later.