Back in 2009, Facebook first allowed people to have their own vanity URLs – a personal web address for their profile. Like many people I raced onto the site to grab my preferred name before someone else could get it.
I chose “myname”, the name I use on virtually all sites. Unfortunately in my haste and unbeknownst to me, my iPhone (trying to be helpful) auto-capitalised the first letter of the form field. Facebook’s coding should have prevented this – it’s a simple thing to prohibit in a form where you know the user is going to be inputting lowercase – but nevertheless my actual vanity URL was set to facebook.com/Myname.
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