Facebook Login is Hard: Welcome to Idiocracy

Feb 10, 2010 107 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

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107 Responses to “Facebook Login is Hard: Welcome to Idiocracy”

  1. slicktor says:

    Apparently people google “facebook login” Get an article with ‘facebook’ and ‘login’ in the title Think it’s facebook http://bit.ly/91sHX2

    This comment was originally posted on Twitter

  2. mocdotcom says:

    This is sad, so very sad. RT @decibyte: det her er jo helt crazy: facebook login is hard – http://bit.ly/chkDj9 /via @divinegod

    This comment was originally posted on Twitter

  3. jpeacock says:

    Facebook Login is Hard: Welcome to Idiocracy http://bit.ly/91sHX2

    This comment was originally posted on Twitter

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  5. Hammad says:

    Facebook is ood site to find friends……………

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  7. Otto says:

    If you ever want to learn way more about how people use the internet, put a computer in a bar and let people use it for free. Then watch them.

    My local bar put in a PC a while back for everybody to use. The owner set it up badly, so I locked it down and updated it and made it basically idiot proof. I also installed Firefox, put it on maximum privacy mode, etc, etc. It’s pretty solid.

    I have sat there at the bar and watched people who are looking at Firefox with Google sitting in it go and open Internet Explorer instead.

    Eventually I removed the icon for IE. What happened? I saw people make a new one for it. I haven’t wanted to actually *remove* IE, mind you, I just want to see how far people will go.

    Finally, I hit upon something brilliant. I changed Firefox’s icon’s to look like IE’s. SCORE! It worked, and most people have yet to notice the difference.

    Watching people surf as well, I’ve determined that roughly half of them type addresses into the URL bar, and half use Google (the default home page) to find what they’re looking for.

    A surprisingly *large* number use the I’m Feeling Lucky button for their primary navigational tool. I’ll see people type “facebook” then hit IFL, and voila, Facebook. This explains the RWW thing, albeit not the insanity of the comments.


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