http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php

Read the comments.

(They all thought that article was "the new Facebook" and got pissed off and confused. It's kind of sad.)


They actualy had to put up a warning sign telling people no, this isn't Facebook. See for yourself.

1 word. WOW

Oh good lord.

:lmao:

LOL at them, people need to look at the address bar if a webpage looks different.

Breaking news: People are stupid

Oh god...

I started to read every comment, got to page 2 and was dying of laughter. I bookmarked the page so if I ever get mad or sad one day, I will continue to read the comments.

They should do something similar to this here

Brain cells.....rapidly dying....IQ.....dropping....

That is incredibly stupid, but, most of those users are obviously people who only use their internet for MSN and Facebook, so this is not surprising. I can totally understand this if my step dad was one of these people (although he doesn't use Facebook).

the fail was so funny that I lost half my lunch

These people don't have facebook bookmarked and they google it every time? Jesus.... :facepalm:

I don't think I've laughed this hard in a LONG time. :rofl:

Here's an article about this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/google_de_facto_internet_gateway/

Sadly, I know people who do this.. it takes much longer than either bookmarking or typing it straight to the address bar, so why do it? Sad, sad people.

Just a bunch of people thingking that they are teh funxorz

Oh God. The government should keep a list of these people and watch them for accidental, harmful stupidity.

this is great.

People who aren't good with computers (and who are not interested enough in their more esoteric functions to learn more about them) often use Google (because a Google searchbar it is right at the top of Internet Explorer's window) to find what they want rather than type the URL into the URL bar or learn to bookmark it. They don't know what bookmarking is, and all those colons, acronyms, and slashes in the URL bar make it seem to complicated to bother with. It's not necessarily a matter of stupidity, it's a matter of convenience for someone who takes web-surfing as a very low priority. If you already know how, typing the URL or bookmarking the site IS faster than googling it. If you don't, then googling it is much faster than taking the time to learn the alternatives.

Since Facebook is just a way to keep in touch with friends and do other "real life" stuff, it attracts a lot of people who would otherwise hardly ever turn on their computers at all. It seems silly to us because almost everyone on this forum is an internet addict.

This is why it should be mandatory to attend a class of some sort that teaches computing and internet basics before people can just go out and buy computers.

No, URL bar is like internet 101. Stupid is the correct word.

It should be customary for the young and experienced to give their elders and inexperienced relatives "the talk" regarding matters on-line.

From a previous thread:
:P

Brilliant Steampunk. Also this had been forever transcribed into the tome of all time failures. This has reached legendary and epic proportions of stupidity and fail. :read: The convicted may now bow their heads in shame and take their place in the annals of epic failure history. *slams ridiculously big book shut which just so happens to boom loudly*

Only guy with some sense.

Look at the pictures... most of them are.. are.. old people :banghead:

I loved that. These peoples es dumb.

Moonmover, I disagree wholeheartedly with you. Learning how to type in a URL in the address bar is one of the most simplistic things you can do on the internet aside from point-and-click. If you live in the 21st century (raise your hands), then you've seen what a URL looks like. You may not know what it is called or what "www" or ".com" really means, but you've seen it. Typing "www.facebook.com" is WELL in the capabilities of nearly everyone who uses a computer. Granted that there are those few hopeless individuals that will get a virus while disconnected from the outside world- those are the people who will forget how to get to facebook the easy way.