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Google tricked stupid Facebook users! Hilarious.
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RubxQub
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...and people get all hot and bothered when I say I don't think too highly of the "average" person...
Look at this shit. Just fucking look at it.
I understand that people think computers are magical things that they don't fully understand...but how does someone get dropped on a webpage that is clearly labelled as something else and is totally different...yet think it's something else?
There are SO MANY indicators that should have tipped people off:
I'm trying to come up with some parallel that isn't technology related...and all I can think of is valet parking.
Some guy drives up to you with some different car and tells you it's yours...and you genuinely think it's your car...but it's totally different. You yell and shout at the valet, asking him why he tampered with your car...how you want your car to look like how it used to...
It just makes no fucking sense.
Look at this shit. Just fucking look at it.
I understand that people think computers are magical things that they don't fully understand...but how does someone get dropped on a webpage that is clearly labelled as something else and is totally different...yet think it's something else?
There are SO MANY indicators that should have tipped people off:
- URL (I'm not at www.facebook.com right now)
- Page Title (I'm on some completely different site looking at a Facebook article)
- Content (clearly none of the content was the same...why assume you're on Facebook?)
- Comments? (what the fuck did people think they were commenting on...some kind of global Facebook thread?)
I have a real hard time giving the "average" person any leeway on shit like this. It'd be one thing if the site at least looked and functioned the same...but it's a totally different fucking website! :lol - Page Title (I'm on some completely different site looking at a Facebook article)
- Content (clearly none of the content was the same...why assume you're on Facebook?)
- Comments? (what the fuck did people think they were commenting on...some kind of global Facebook thread?)
I'm trying to come up with some parallel that isn't technology related...and all I can think of is valet parking.
Some guy drives up to you with some different car and tells you it's yours...and you genuinely think it's your car...but it's totally different. You yell and shout at the valet, asking him why he tampered with your car...how you want your car to look like how it used to...
It just makes no fucking sense.
Gaz Pwnage
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This thread of responses is the single most awesome, tragicomic example of internet stupid I've ever been lucky to witness. It's like having Carrot Top pull my spleen out through my nostril.
Screw the blog post's actual topic. The post itself is a brilliant innovation. Genius! Think about this! Everyone who can't figure out that this is a blog post about Facebook, not Facebook itself, is actually prevented from finding Facebook and logging in! Which means-- think about this, world! -- we don't have to read their status updates anymore!
It's like a digital kiddie-pen that prevents the intertube impaired from falling down the stairwell of social media!
Thank you, RWW!
Posted by: Captain Obvious | February 10, 2010 2:12 PM
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Screw the blog post's actual topic. The post itself is a brilliant innovation. Genius! Think about this! Everyone who can't figure out that this is a blog post about Facebook, not Facebook itself, is actually prevented from finding Facebook and logging in! Which means-- think about this, world! -- we don't have to read their status updates anymore!
It's like a digital kiddie-pen that prevents the intertube impaired from falling down the stairwell of social media!
Thank you, RWW!
Posted by: Captain Obvious | February 10, 2010 2:12 PM
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Escape Goat
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LET ME IN!!!!!! WTF!11one oen!!Eleven!!!
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Posted by: Thorn | February 12, 2010 7:20 AM
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LET ME IN!!!!!! WTF!11one oen!!Eleven!!!
Teh new way sux, am taking ball n goin home.
Posted by: Thorn | February 12, 2010 7:20 AM
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Escape Goat
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BobLoblaw said:So bad I have to use 2.
lets go for the trifecta
To be fair, this isn't exactly an accurate representation of the 'average person'. First, they have to pass the idiot check of googling URLs. Second, another idiot test to actually sign up for a site they had thought was Facebook. Third, final idiot test, posting a comment trying to figure out why Facebook had changed. That's three idiot checks right there. It's the worst of the worst. Not exactly average.RubxQub said:
RubxQub
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True, who knows if what we're looking at is purely the bottom of the barrel...but that barrel seems so fucking huge that it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to think that the average person is skewed much more towards the "how did I get here, I don't even..." instead of "oh...this obviously isn't facebook..."hulot said:
fortified_concept
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This is torture. People are even more retarded than I initially thought.
BuddhaRockstar
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FleckSplat said:
Great more fuel for Sarah Palin.
So basically..
- People type facebook into google
- Click random site that pops up thinking it's facebook
- Register for said site and are confused because it's nothing like facebook
Right?
But when you type facebook into google, the first hit is always facebook.com, so I don't get it
- People type facebook into google
- Click random site that pops up thinking it's facebook
- Register for said site and are confused because it's nothing like facebook
Right?
But when you type facebook into google, the first hit is always facebook.com, so I don't get it
RubxQub said:
Your analogy works better if the valet never actually claims it was your car. You just take the first one that drives up and start screaming about how Honda changed your car to a Ford for no reason at all, and now your keys don't work.
Or forget the whole valet thing altogether, and use somebody wandering through a parking garage screaming "WHERE CAR IS" and assuming the nearest one is yours because it's close to you.
Macho Madness
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They were typing "facebook login" which had that article as the first result.X26 said:
RubxQub
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This is why I hate playing poker with people that don't understand or are willfully ignorant of basic statistics.Tobor said:
You just can't play the game with any kind of strategy if you can't even begin to anticipate what the person across from the table is trying to do.
fortified_concept
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Are we sure this isn't a 4chan hoax? People can't be this stupid.
CrayzeeCarl
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impirius said:
Top result is bugmenot.com. Here's one of their logins for noegaf.com:
:lol
fortified_concept said:
I worked customer service for a student loan company for a while. I shit you not, I heard the question "It says click next to continue. What should I do?" three times a week. Not fucking exaggerating.
These are people in college. You know. Higher education.
Another one that happened not nearly as often, but unfortunately more than once:
We had a security question system for the login. Pick three questions, put answers in. People would get confused as to why the page wouldn't let them proceed because they looked at the list of questions, thought about which one they wanted to answer, and clicked "Choose one" in the drop down. They couldn't understand why it wouldn't let them continue.
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Archaix said:
:lol Amazing
CrayzeeCarl
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You know, I've always felt that it was a real problem telling people to just search "x" and click the top result. Even legitimate companies instruct people to do that on their commercials. I really think phishing is going to explode in popularity soon. Even with anti-phishing measures in place in some browsers, some people really do just blindly click without reading anything. Not to mention that most of these people aren't educated enough to know what a browser is, much less how and why to choose a different (non-ie6) browser.
Besides, you can't guarantee that your official site will always be the top result for all eternity. That shit changes all the time and it is out of your control.
Besides, you can't guarantee that your official site will always be the top result for all eternity. That shit changes all the time and it is out of your control.
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this one made me laugh a lot more than it should have.
You guys are surprised?
The average person is fucking TECH-ILLITERATE. Outside of the internet they look like "normal" people but holy shit put them in front of a computer and they have absolutely no idea what they're fucking doing.
I hate people, so many people are SO FUCKING STUPID.
I tell you, 90% of the people on facebook...their internet IS Facebook. When they reference that they use the internet, what they mean is that they use facebook and everything else is like another fucking language.
At first it's annoying, but then I realized it just makes me feel better knowing that I'm not them.
At first I thought to myself, how do these obvious phishing e-mails and sites work on people? How dumb must you be to fall for such an OBVIOUS fucking trap? Well, that's about 90% of the internet users. You could go on facebook and e-mail a lot of people telling them you knew a way to get them free money or some shit and link it to a shock site (as long as you use tinyurl, tinyurl is the key to getting past an idiot), and it'd work.
Another thing, people don't know what an .exe file is, anyone who knows the internet knows not to just go playing around with .exe files. Holy shit.
/rant on how stupid people are, because they are.
The average person is fucking TECH-ILLITERATE. Outside of the internet they look like "normal" people but holy shit put them in front of a computer and they have absolutely no idea what they're fucking doing.
I hate people, so many people are SO FUCKING STUPID.
I tell you, 90% of the people on facebook...their internet IS Facebook. When they reference that they use the internet, what they mean is that they use facebook and everything else is like another fucking language.
At first it's annoying, but then I realized it just makes me feel better knowing that I'm not them.
At first I thought to myself, how do these obvious phishing e-mails and sites work on people? How dumb must you be to fall for such an OBVIOUS fucking trap? Well, that's about 90% of the internet users. You could go on facebook and e-mail a lot of people telling them you knew a way to get them free money or some shit and link it to a shock site (as long as you use tinyurl, tinyurl is the key to getting past an idiot), and it'd work.
Another thing, people don't know what an .exe file is, anyone who knows the internet knows not to just go playing around with .exe files. Holy shit.
/rant on how stupid people are, because they are.
I always wondered how Google got to be one of the biggest companies in the world almost solely on the back of their search engine. I figured I googled things as much as the next person, but apparently I really under- (over?) estimated the next person. I simply cannot believe that people google 'facebook login' every single time.
It's not like it's still 5 years ago when you had to enter in http:// or www. or even .com. Don't pretty much all browsers now allow you to just type 'facebook' into the address bar?
Truly bewildering.
edit: Has anyone else tried clicking on the links to peoples' profiles who are making these comments? It's a whole game unto itself. The wonderful part is that, quite obviously, they are already logged in to facebook.
It's not like it's still 5 years ago when you had to enter in http:// or www. or even .com. Don't pretty much all browsers now allow you to just type 'facebook' into the address bar?
Truly bewildering.
edit: Has anyone else tried clicking on the links to peoples' profiles who are making these comments? It's a whole game unto itself. The wonderful part is that, quite obviously, they are already logged in to facebook.
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