Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launch [video]

from the comments: http://i40.tinypic.com/ddp8qc.jpg

From a performance standpoint, it was perfectly smooth. I was surprised. Then again, when I told a sibling to get her facebook username, she had no idea what I was talking about.

For some odd reason it wouldn't let me register my real name (Felix) even though I entered only a few (<10) seconds after the giveaway started.. the minimum lenght is supposed to be five characters, and Felix is still not taken as I type this - kinda annoying, since now I had to take something else when apparently Felix would've been available, but wasn't due to some bug. And the giveaway was at 6 in the morning in my timezone...

The lack of a downvote button will soon cause me -- and probably people who share similar sentiments -- to simply flag everything that has the words "twitter", "facebook", "new media", "techcrunch" etc. without thinking or reading the said article.

pg out to find a way around non-news items making it to the HN front page.

Please people, please! This is not a place to post Facebook, Twitter and MySpace news.

When sensationalism and hype comes in, intellectully satisfying discussion dies out.

Except I cannot hear a word the guy is saying. It just comes out as ... ... ... ...... .... ....