Reply With QuoteI'm really hoping I don't see post from a family member in their comments.
http://ryankuder.posterous.com/faceb...web-blog-is-fa
Short version: readwriteweb.com is a blog which posted an entry yesterday about facebook logins. Somehow, it ended up high on the list of results if you search for "facebook login" on google. Hundreds of old people and semi-literate types who cannot use bookmarks, apparently log in to facebook this way. They clicked the rww link on google, and then were surprised to be faced with a blog article instead their facebook home page. For extra fun, rww supports logging in to facebook in order to leave a comment...
I'm really hoping I don't see post from a family member in their comments.
Haha. Good one.Originally Posted by Ezdaar
Any doubts I had about the efficacy of phishing have now been utterly obliterated.
No shit.
My faith in humanity is getting ass-raped by this. I had to stop reading it. It was just too depressing.
I'm laughing my ass off.
Oh, and I shared it on FB.
If you havin' URL problems I feel bad for you son.
Nice. Expect this comments section to have a voice soon.
I got 99 problems but loggin' in ain't one?
Oh god, that horrible address bar.for those of you that want to get in face book now just go to Bing..put in face book and search (or it will pop up) hit on face book login and it takes you to your password page...i did it....
And every single one of them plays Farmville.
Somebody help me stop saying FARMVILLE!!!
Ha ha:
This thread reminds me of the time my grandfather typed his phone number into the microwave's keypad, then wondered why his kitchen was on fire.
(Seriously, that happened.)
Oh humanity. You don't deserve warning labels.
I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK PAGE , IN FACT I HAVE STARTED TO VISIT IT LESS, BECAUSE IT IS A HASSLEthis is not a good thing i just don't think u have thought this thru. I haven't made a decision yet but i might give facebook up this is too much troubleI love facebook. It is a great way to connect with people on a regular basis. However - I JUST WANT TO SIGN IN and eerytime I try to get on lately it has changed. STOP.12345this retarded i have not got much time for this ihave 4 children who demand my time! what ever u guys r doin could u like do this yesterday?
Well at least one of them gets it.Damn you all Farmville users...
Holy shitballs, this is hilarious, one of the repliers(is that even a word?) is my ex-wife I think. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That is delicious.
It kinda looks faked to me. Is this for real?
No clue, but for the sake of my entertainment, I'm pretending it's real.
It is. At least for a bit. The ones with facebook logins are probably real given that it's a far more risky troll to do so with your own facebook account and there's no way anyone made that many fake facebook accounts.
It isn't fake - at least, as Charles says, at first. Everyone who's done IT work has gotten this call at least once:
IT: "Okay, so I want you to go to the following URL. You should see-"
Customer: "I don't know what that is."
IT: "Uh, web page. I want you to go to the page <T-H-E-U-R-L> so you can do <whatever>."
Customer: "I don't see it, all it says is <reads everything they see verbatim>!"
IT: "I'm looking at it right now. Are you really on the site?"
Customer: "Yes!"
IT: "What did you do to go to the site?"
Customer: "I typed it in and then I clicked -"
IT: "Wait! Wait! Where did you type it?"
Customer: "Into Google."
IT: "Okay, try typing it into the address bar."
Customer: "I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS"
I got over being amazed at people typing urls into Google a long time ago. Now I just sigh and keep my mouth shut.
Yeah, I couldn't think of anything that rhymed correctly to follow up. Sorry!
My friend Jennifer's mom thought she had won a free laptop because of a banner ad.
Old people just aren't young people.
I have an app, Search Trends, that lists the top 20 or so searches for Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and I've noticed that searches in the latter two are very unsophisticated. Usually they're one or two word searches like "irs" or "nascar" or "john mayer" (as opposed to Google's "Olympic schedule vancouver 2010"), but even worse is how many should simply be entered as urls. Currently, and perennially, in Yahoo's top 15:
- Youtube
- Hulu
- drudgereport
- Bing (!)
Actually now that I'm looking at Bing again it seems like the searches there have become more sophisticated as of late with most of them being multi-word, and I only see one website name, "proflowers".
Same here. Ugh.
Am I the only one who sees a potential for money here?
1. Make website input field that appends "www." and ".com" to whatever is typed into it. Make the box have focus, ready for input when the page loads. Sends you to that site in a new window.
2. Fill the webpage with google ads below the input field that update when the user uses the page to go somewhere.
3. Count the piles of cash.
I wonder if "theaddressbar.com" is taken yet...?
Shit... beaten
http://www.myaddressbar.com/
Meh, I do that all the time. It's easier to type "youtube" into the search area and click twice than to type "http://www.youtube.com". Not to mention there are some sites that are particular about whether or not there's a www in the front.
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