Should it be any surprise that I remembered to get my Facebook vanity name only two hours after it became available. Well I couldn’t let it get like Twitter or anything else important, where if you wait too long you won’t get anywhere remotely close to your own name. (Yahoo and Hotmail come to mind.) Especially if it’s like Brian or Mark or Michael Smith something. No offense, Michael Smith. All 12 million of you. But my name is not going anywhere unless someone hijacks it. I’m not gonna let that happen either. (You never know. There’s some crazies out there.)

Anyways, I’ve secured www.facebook.com/zuriberry so I can sleep at night. (I’ve also locked down @zuriberry, although I don’t use it. Hence, no link.)

Now that that’s over, I was intrigued by the option, or lack thereof, to take vanity names for pages that you administer on the site. Only pages with 1,000 fans or more can have a vanity name. That’s so whack.

I’ve got 318 friends. What if I only had 100? Would that mean no vanity name? I’m pretty sure not. But apparently, my newspaper’s fan page, which I was convinced by Facebook was better than just setting up a regular profile, cannot have its own vanity name because of its dearth of fans. (We’ve got 23 after launching the fan page 2 months ago.)

The limitations, as Facebook put forth for vanity names for regular users, is listed as such:

Eligibility is limited to anyone who joined Facebook before usernames were publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on June 9, 2009. These users will have the chance to claim usernames at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009.

This limitation is temporary. All users who joined Facebook after the cut-off will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

This decision was made to prevent people from creating new accounts just to take advantage of reserving a username. Eligibility is limited to anyone who joined Facebook before username availability was publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Eligible users will have the chance to claim usernames at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009.

This limitation is temporary. All users who joined Facebook after the cut-off date will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

For fan pages, the eligibility and limitation is as follows:

Your Facebook Page must meet two requirements: it must have been live on Facebook prior to the May 31, 2009 cut-off date and have had a minimum 1,000 fans at that time.

This limitation is temporary. All Pages created after May 31, 2009 or that had less than 1,000 fans on that day will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

In short, it’s just a frustration for me after I thought I had it taken care of today. The wait ensues.

To read up on Facebook vanity usernames or get your own, go to www.facebook.com/username.