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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 10:39 pm

Awesome. :rofl:

I am retired due to lack of oxygen at birth. Why can't I login? This website is racist.

Real or troll? I can't tell anymore, it all looks the same. :P
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Cool Man Sam
 
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Post » Fri May 20, 2011 6:16 am

Wow, what a load of fail. I have a feeling that at least half of those commenters were just taking the piss, though.

After the first couple of pages, some trolls caught on and started being idiots about it. The first two pages, though, are definately real.
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Charlotte X
 
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Post » Fri May 20, 2011 4:51 am

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.

Except that these people seem to completely lack the common sense to see that a website with "ReadWriteWeb" in huge letters, without any mention of facebook beyond the article, and completely lacking in anything resembling a "Login to facebook" option might just possibly be a website that isn't facebook. It's like if you go to a newsagent to get your regular magazine from its usual spot, only you see that it has a different title, is a different size, has a completely different layout, and is about dog breeding as opposed to cars. Would you assume you'd picked up a different magazine and go look for your regular one, or would you go shout at the newsagent and/or write angry letters to the publisher because your car magazine is suddenly about dog-breeding?
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 3:49 pm

After the first couple of pages, some trolls caught on and started being idiots about it. The first two pages, though, are definately real.


Do you mean the clueless one? If yes, I don't think so, some logged there with their facebook profile. So they have a picture of themselves complaining. Whether I am wrong, I will believe what I said b/c I will go back to laugh.
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Emma Pennington
 
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Post » Fri May 20, 2011 6:14 am

I'm sorry but I really don't get it. Not only did they click the wrong link, have the wrong URL, see a different website layout and have the entire page with an incredibly long story without any sort of username or password fields, how in the hell do they not realise it's a different site? The title and description are even completely different... Then again maybe they clicked "I'm Feeling Lucky", but surely if they couldn't understand the simple concept of different websites, they would not dare use a seemingly random (in reality all it is, is a "Redirect me to the first result") button.
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Lavender Brown
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 7:29 pm

I'm sorry but I really don't get it. Not only did they click the wrong link, have the wrong URL, see a different website layout and have the entire page with an incredibly long story without any sort of username or password fields, how in the hell do they not realise it's a different site? The title and description are even completely different... Then again maybe the clicked "I'm Feeling Lucky", but surely if they couldn't understand the simple concept of different websites, they would not dare use a seemingly random (in reality all it is, is a "Redirect me to the first result") button.


Sadly, some people, are just that dumb.
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IsAiah AkA figgy
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 10:38 pm

These people really like Facebook...
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JaNnatul Naimah
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 8:24 pm

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Music Show
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 6:32 pm

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My sentiments exactly.
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e.Double
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 2:26 pm

Hahaha, Amazing, Those people shouldn't buy things online :clap: :bolt:
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Jeff Tingler
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 1:48 pm

Hahaha, Amazing, Those people shouldn't buy things online :clap: :bolt:

"Hey, son, could you help me out? I tried buying a google today, and it says that my firewalls are doing something wrong?"

"Dad, you just bought a refrigerator. And that's not google. That's a fridge fetishists site."

EDIT: "Oh, so rule 34 has nothing to do with http 404? Good to know."
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Farrah Lee
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 2:03 pm

I NEED TO SIGN IN TO MY FACEBOOK! THIS NEW DESIGN SUX!

Seriously, those people are idiots. They must have fixed the websearch or something, because I just looked up Facebook login, and the real facebook is the first few links. Or, you could just troll and complain on the website that is clearly not facebook.
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Tiffany Castillo
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 8:54 pm

Yeah, if you read the disclaimer that RWW put in the middle of their page it even states that if you "Google" Facebook it will be the first link.

I am so glad I don't have a Facebook account.
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Lakyn Ellery
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 3:06 pm

Holy [censored] there are a lot of dumb people out there. :rofl:
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Ebou Suso
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 7:02 pm

It's like if you go to a newsagent to get your regular magazine from its usual spot, only you see that it has a different title, is a different size, has a completely different layout, and is about dog breeding as opposed to cars. Would you assume you'd picked up a different magazine and go look for your regular one, or would you go shout at the newsagent and/or write angry letters to the publisher because your car magazine is suddenly about dog-breeding?

This.
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Post » Fri May 20, 2011 6:05 am

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Seriously, those people are idiots. They must have fixed the websearch or something, because I just looked up Facebook login, and the real facebook is the first few links.
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Since this topic was posted in februari, not a big surprise :wink_smile:
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Campbell
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 8:40 pm

LOL at all the old folk's comments!
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Vera Maslar
 
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 9:31 pm

This topic should have been over in February after it was originally posted, not only for the comments on the original site, but those in this topic. Do we want it to continue? Nope.
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