Epic "how to login to Facebook" fail

[Mise]

http://fairlyinteresting.com/post/385335521/epic-how-to-login-to-facebook-fail

Epic "how to login to Facebook" fail

Read the comments at the bottom of this article on ReadWriteWeb and you’ll see a herd of irate people trying to login to Facebook on the article page itself. They seem to think that ReadWriteWeb is the new Facebook.

It turns out that people on the internet login to Facebook as follows:
1. Enter “facebook login” in the Google search box in their browser
2. Click the first link on the Google results page
3. Hunt around the page you get to and try and login to Facebook

The problem, as Dan Wineman explains here, seems to be Facebook Connect. You can add comments to the article by logging in via Facebook Connect, as prompted here:

Not surprisingly rather a lot of people don’t know what Facebook Connect is and so think this is some new way of logging into Facebook.

ReadWriteWeb has a story on this story, and seems to think it’s Google’s fault: “If this many of them can’t login to Facebook by typing that into Google and clicking on the first thing they see, it’s probably not them that are wrong, it’s Google.”

Neven Mrgan comments: “The degree of faith people put in Google’s top result makes Catholics look like hippies. I don’t really blame anyone here and I have no clue what the solution is. My only takeaway is that I’m terrified of dealing with technologies of this level of popularity.”

John Gruber comments: “It’s funny, yes, but it’s a fascinating glimpse at just how confused many people are about how web sites and browsers work. They don’t use bookmarks, they don’t type “facebook.com” in the location field. They just Google for whatever they’re looking for and assume the first result is correct. All this argument over whether the iPad is too simple — if anything it’s probably still too complex.”

How friggin dumb do you have to be to think that website is the "new facebook" The comments are freaking hilarious!

 

[warpus]

Man, reading some of the comments I am certain that they are satire.... I bet what happened was we got a couple idiots writing such comments, then.. well.. you know what happens when the reddit (or digg, or fourchan, or fark, or whatever) userbase gets their hands on a link like this.

 

[Mise]

Well a lot of them were actually logged in to the facebook connect thing (hence the photos and the facebook logo by their real names). Not sure if random internet trolls would do that tbh. But yeah a lot of the others were trolls.....

 

[MeteorPunch]

That is hilarious and sad.