Harman’s head: Facebook doesn’t care about your vanity URL

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Posted on January 23, 2010 | tags

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harman 1 A guy named Harman Bajwa, who had reserved the vanity URL of facebook.com/harman, had it taken away “for violating Facebook’s policies” – the policy where the URL has to have something to do with your name. Wait a second …
harman 2 It appears that the real reason Harman’s vanity URL was taken away was because Facebook’s sales staff did a deal with one Harman International, and swiped the name from the guy under false pretenses. Pretty lame. source

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