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		<title>&#8220;Upload&#8221; Claimed As A Facebook Username?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Regina Walton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="520" height="245" src="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2011/04/kevin-girls-520x245.jpg" alt="kevin-girls" title="kevin-girls" /><br />Um, I&#8217;m not sure how long this will last, so I&#8217;m writing about it now. Dan Schawbel sent out a tweet today that made me do a double take. Here...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img width="520" height="245" src="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2011/04/kevin-girls-520x245.jpg" alt="kevin girls 520x245 Upload Claimed As A Facebook Username?" title="kevin girls 520x245 photo"  /><br /><p>Um, I&#8217;m not sure how long this will last, so I&#8217;m writing about it now. Dan Schawbel sent out a tweet today that made me do a double take.</p>
<p>Here it is:</p>
<div id="attachment_1946" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 476px"><a href="http://twitter.com/danschawbel/statuses/6865802866"><img class="size-full wp-image-1946" title=" photo" src="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2009/12/cant-upload-on-FB.PNG" alt="Talk about branding: can't upload on Facebook!" width="466" height="258" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Talk about branding: can&#39;t upload on Facebook!</p></div>
<p>I think it&#8217;s pretty amusing because Dan is a self branding expert, and what this guy did is excellent branding because his Facebook page links to a Romanian upload site.  Now it&#8217;s also annoying branding to those who use the link to upload to Facebook.  Here is the screen shot of the Facebook page.  I figure if he took &#8220;upload&#8221; as his Facebook username he doesn&#8217;t mind having his name out there.  However, I&#8217;ve decided to cut his name and the names of his friends out. You know my name, so that&#8217;s still there ;)  Also, when you click over, his name is right there.</p>
<div id="attachment_1948" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 594px"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/upload"><img class="size-full wp-image-1948" title=" photo" src="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2009/12/facebook-upload-redacted1.PNG" alt="Note the URL: http://www.facebook.com/upload" width="584" height="502" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Note the URL: http://www.facebook.com/upload</p></div>
<p>I also got a screen shot because I&#8217;m pretty confident that Facebook will act when they realize what&#8217;s happened.  I do wonder how many times this profile has been reported.  Plus, this is the net, and you&#8217;ve got to preserve this stuff or people just won&#8217;t believe you.</p>
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