So, yesterday Facebook finally gave users the ability to choose a vanity url for their profile, no longer do you need to remember facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890 instead you get to pick a username and have facebook.com/myusername, just like every single other social networking tool in existence. They give you a set of default alternatives to pick, things like dean.robinson or deanrobinson etc, or you can choose you own, I chose deanjrobinson. They also say once you’ve picked it you can’t change it, which I guess is fair. What is odd though is that facebook.com/deanjrobinson is the same as facebook.com/dean.j.robinson is the same as facebook.com/dea.njrob.inson is the same as facebook.com/d.e.a.n.j.r.o.b.i.n.s.o.n etc etc… So the question is, what’s the point in giving users the option to include a period/full stop in their ‘username’ if it just gets ignored anyway, seems like an unnecessary level of confusion to me.