New social media sites are popping up every day. That doesn’t mean you need to participate in each and every site. Heck, you’d never have time for work or a social life, for that matter, if you spent all your time networking with on all the various sites.
But…(there’s always a but)
Just because you don’t plan to use every latest and greatest social networking site doesn’t mean you shouldn’t reserve your name or brand. To make it easier, The Next Web has come up with a list of three sites that you can use to check your username across many different sites.
namechk – namechk.com (free)
Namechk checks username availability across 122 sites. Unlike the two sites below, namechk does not offer username monitoring or any additional pay services.
KnowEm – knowem.com (free + pay option)
KnowEm checks username availability across 120 sites. There are also two premium service options. You can pay them a one time fee of $64.95 to register all of your unclaimed usernames that they have in their 120 site database. Another option is to subscribe monthly. KnowEm promises to register your username on your behalf with all the new sites that crop up every month (up to 16 per month). They also promise beta invites to subscribers as well.
Friends Call Me – friendscall.me (free)
Many people might be familiar with the team behind Friends Call Me as they are the same group who run the popular color and design community website COLOURlovers.com. Friends Call Me offers the ability to check usernames across more than 150 sites. What’s also quite useful is that the site organizes the websites it checks by category. Like KnowEm, the site also monitors new sites and notifies you about them. However, Friends Call Me doesn’t offer to register them for you for a fee (like KnowEm) – you must register them yourself. Friends Call Me also offers something the above services don’t – a landing page for all your profiles.
So get out there and claim your username and brand and take over the Internet! I dare you!
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