I think what is going to happen is that people are going to bypass the search and immediately look for your first and last name. In addition, what if Facebook implements an @reply system similar to Twitter's? - Jesse Stay

However, default.aspx will bring you more new followers - I think more people will stumble upon your profile with something like default.aspx - Jesse Stay

Firstoff, I don't think it's about followers on Facebook - it's a totally different model. Secondly, the @replies model is just lazy; Facebook already has features for this. Meh. - Lawrence

i doubt default.aspx will bring any users - it's cutsie for blogs to report on but how will people find it? when have you ever manually typed that into a browser? - Allen Stern

Allen, you're probably right. It's just "cutsie" - vanity URLs are the new MySpace theme? - Jesse Stay

Did you get your FB username yet Jesse? - Kevin Whalen

Kevin, no - Facebook won't let me - Jesse Stay

I could get jstay or stayj or similar, but I want jessestay and supposedly, even though I told them not to, they "reserved it" for me. I'm in the same predicament as Louis Gray or Mike Arrington and others. - Jesse Stay

Really? Did they end up not reserving it for you like you and Louis Gray discussed last night? - Kevin Whalen from email

Oh, so will you guys eventually be given access to the names that were reserved for you? - Kevin Whalen

Kevin, no, they reserved it - they won't let us have the names though. - Jesse Stay

Kevin, I'm confident we'll eventually get them. Frankly there's not much you can do with the VanityURLs right now anyway. I already have Facebook as one of the top results when you search for "Jesse Stay" so the only benefit, SEO, is out the door. - Jesse Stay