Facebook Vanity Url: Did you get one?

As most of you know, Facebook launched its Vanity Url feature last night, which created a lot of buzz online over the last week or so. Finally catching up to their competitors such as Myspace (who's been doing it for years) and Twitter, Facebook now allows you to create a url for your page, such as http://www.facebook.com/your-name-here, so that it's easier to direct people to your page. All I can say is, it's about time. I never really understood why this wasn't done from the beginning.

Regardless, last night people from all over the world waited anxiously by their computers counting down the seconds till the new feature went live, so they could snag a few of their top choice url's. 

According to Tech Crunch, "Within seven minutes of the service being available last night, 345,000 users grabbed one. Within 15 minutes, over a half million had one." 

Some were looking to lock down their personal name, others their company's name and/or brand, while a majority of others went for URLs they think will make them a nice profit in the future.  While I wasn't one of those half a million people waiting by my computer last night (due to an event I had to attend), I was still able to grab facebook.com/EricSchechter, facebook.com/socialmediaman, as well as a few others this morning. 

It will be exciting to see how people take advantage of their new URLs, as well as seeing if people can actually sell them and for how much. I guess only time will tell. What are your thoughts?

Check out Mashable's 15 Silliest Facebook Vanity URLs