"Soon you will be able to have a username"
Popular productivity murderer facebook is letting you have a username (from June 13th). My guess is that you'll be able to search for people using it.

Question is, who will use their b3ta username? Who doesn't care about their privacy in the slightest?
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:08, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Me personally, I've been careful not to mix
b3ta and facebook. I'm a bit paranoid about sharing too much (as my sister put it after we had an argument over her telling our dad my old username, "What's your problem? Who do you think you are, Howard f***in' Hughes?")
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:11, Reply)

I've got a few crossovers between b3ta and Facebook
but generally they're people I've met in the flesh.

I won't be taking them up on their username business - I don't want too much crossover.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:13, Reply)

^ this

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:18, Reply)

We were facebook friends before we met
stop lying to people on the internet
(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:24, Reply)

That's because I wanted to see if you were hot and then felt too guilty to delete you

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:25, Reply)

I can't use the same excuse
seeing as I knew what you looked like from your CONSTANT POSTING OF SEMI CLOTHED PICTURES OF YOURSELF ONLINE.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:26, Reply)

Once is constant? Or was it merely that you couldn't help going back to have another look?

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:27, Reply)

it's my screensaver

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:28, Reply)

I thought so

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:30, Reply)

The only one I've ever used that has generated a decent response was Kiss or Kill.
I just can't seem to think of a user name.
Kristine is my real name and I have a few b3tans as friends on facebook but they don't know anything personal, really, and I talk to them there about as much as I do here.
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:17, Reply)

WE'RE FACEBOOK FRIENDS
screw everyone else
(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:24, Reply)

YES HELLO
*messages on facebookb3tabebomyspazzcraigslist*
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:42, Reply)

I won't be taking them up on the username
Because it's the most pointless fucking idea they've had in a long time.

"Hmm, I need to look for someone I went to school with, what's their username?"

Real name, always a better idea.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:18, Reply)

I maintain a careful separation of the two
I have a few friends from here on there, but on the whole I won't be having a username.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:19, Reply)

Complete seperation.
Although nothing I've ever said on here is anything that's not pretty much common knowledge about me.
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:21, Reply)

Me too...
...but then I don't bother with FaceBook, so it's a bit of a moot point for me.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:50, Reply)

Never seen the point of facebook
And the only time people talk about it is to complain about something, so I don't think I'm missing anything.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:31, Reply)

Bit of concensus
I'll still struggle not to take my old username though as I've been using it for about TEN whole years now.
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 15:48, Reply)

Well, I'm not on facebook
But I use the same username almost everywhere.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 16:02, Reply)