Did Facebook Kill Itself By Giving Out Usernames?

If not, did you change your Facebook username?

By U.S. News Staff

June 15, 2009 RSS Feed Print

Over the weekend Facebook gave its users usernames, allowing search engines to more easily access profiles on the social networking site. Critics of the move—and there are many—say that this makes Facebook as indistinguishable as any of the thousands of personal websites on the Internet. Is this true? Is Facebook dead? Did you change your Facebook username? Post your thoughts.

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