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So, how do you get to a social networking site you use with moderate frequency, say once a week or more? Apparently, there's a large number of people who go to google and type "facebook login." Apparently, a large enough number of users clicked on a blog post about Facebook's partnership with AOL and a planned interconnection between AIM and Facebook. (I can't decide if i don't want or have just given up caring.)
Upon landing in this blog post, the users hoping to log into facebook are confronted by the UI of the blog. The comments sections supports "logging in to leave a comment" with OpenID (so you could use your LJ handle) or Facebook connect (or Twitter or Movable Type or TypeKey. What, no Google OpenSocial?!).
The Lost Facebook Sheep then manage to log in using the commenting fields and have left comments like
"You reallllly don't want to know what I think. I was doing pretty good until now. I want a nice EASY login like I had before!!!!!" "It's no fun when you break my toys.Very bad move on facebook part." "i was just getting used to useing the old one why do you guys change it we liked it the way it was please put it back. thank u"
In short, in the comment from someone at ReadWriteWeb, "people are doing Google searches for 'facebook login' and coming upon RWW. They see the FB Connect button* and assume that RWW is the 'new Facebook.'"
The FB connect button is to illustrate the post Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login. It's now just a Facebook logo and there's a warning in the article. The warning has not stopped the comments.
But then there are comments like "I just promoted this search result on Google. Doing my part to immanentize the Eschaton." [here]
Captain Obvious concludes, "It's like a digital kiddie-pen that prevents the intertube impaired from falling down the stairwell of social media."
More charitably, "This is a fascinating insight into what a scary and mysterious place the internet is for many people. They find their familiar paths and stick to them. Even if that path involves Googling Facebook. It's also a rare intersection of two entirely different types of Internet users. Wow."
I did do a small experiment and logged out of FB. Facebook's login page is designed for a 1000 pixel wide screen. At 600 pixels wide, the login boxes are not visible.
So folks on older computers, older monitors, large text, may be first trying facebook.com -- even following the "click here" of the warning -- and may still be mystified. See comment 114, "The new interface has some kind of atlas-like graphic with icons that look like little people with dotted lines between them. Tried clicking on those but they don't do anything. Where do I enter my password for authentication, that is a challenge." That's what is on the left 600 pixels of the facebook page, the text entry boxes are to the right of the 600 pixels.
Perhaps the warning text should be updated to say, "Click here and scroll the browser window to the right." (Or is that to the left.)
Upon landing in this blog post, the users hoping to log into facebook are confronted by the UI of the blog. The comments sections supports "logging in to leave a comment" with OpenID (so you could use your LJ handle) or Facebook connect (or Twitter or Movable Type or TypeKey. What, no Google OpenSocial?!).
The Lost Facebook Sheep then manage to log in using the commenting fields and have left comments like
"You reallllly don't want to know what I think. I was doing pretty good until now. I want a nice EASY login like I had before!!!!!" "It's no fun when you break my toys.Very bad move on facebook part." "i was just getting used to useing the old one why do you guys change it we liked it the way it was please put it back. thank u"
In short, in the comment from someone at ReadWriteWeb, "people are doing Google searches for 'facebook login' and coming upon RWW. They see the FB Connect button* and assume that RWW is the 'new Facebook.'"
The FB connect button is to illustrate the post Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login. It's now just a Facebook logo and there's a warning in the article. The warning has not stopped the comments.
But then there are comments like "I just promoted this search result on Google. Doing my part to immanentize the Eschaton." [here]
Captain Obvious concludes, "It's like a digital kiddie-pen that prevents the intertube impaired from falling down the stairwell of social media."
More charitably, "This is a fascinating insight into what a scary and mysterious place the internet is for many people. They find their familiar paths and stick to them. Even if that path involves Googling Facebook. It's also a rare intersection of two entirely different types of Internet users. Wow."
I did do a small experiment and logged out of FB. Facebook's login page is designed for a 1000 pixel wide screen. At 600 pixels wide, the login boxes are not visible.
So folks on older computers, older monitors, large text, may be first trying facebook.com -- even following the "click here" of the warning -- and may still be mystified. See comment 114, "The new interface has some kind of atlas-like graphic with icons that look like little people with dotted lines between them. Tried clicking on those but they don't do anything. Where do I enter my password for authentication, that is a challenge." That's what is on the left 600 pixels of the facebook page, the text entry boxes are to the right of the 600 pixels.
Perhaps the warning text should be updated to say, "Click here and scroll the browser window to the right." (Or is that to the left.)
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