Oh shit :lolComment #522 said:See, this is why technology is bad for the human race. In centuries gone by, all of the commentards whining about their FB login would have been the local cave idiots who were too stupid to run away from the sabre-toothed tiger. Thus, nature would have pruned the dead wood, and the species would stay trim and healthy and at a manageable population level.
Fast forward to present day, and now all this plankton is clogging up the gene pool instead of doing the decent thing and dying off and taking their malformed DNA with them.
Christ on a cracker, it makes me want to go on a chain-saw rampage.
sky said:Yet they were still able to understand how to comment on the article.
Willy105 said:I know people like this in real life. What's worse, they appear completely normal.
RubxQub said:There are SO MANY indicators that should have tipped people off:
- URL (I'm not at www.facebook.com right now)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?)
BuddhaRockstar said:What's disturbing is how many people rely on just mashing words into google and then smashing enter without even checking where they're going. I used to wonder how phishing sites found people so dense, but we're now at a point where a lot of people using computers really don't know the absolute basics about them.
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:...and people get all hot and bothered when I say I don't think too highly of the "average" person...
:lolAll this argument over whether the iPad is too simple if anything its probably still too complex.
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: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:...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....
It just makes no fucking sense.
FleckSplat said:
X26 said: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
X26 said: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
RubxQub said:...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:
- URL (I'm not at www.facebook.com right now)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.
They were typing "facebook login" which had that article as the first result.X26 said: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
btkadams said:im confused as to how people think the website is facebook.
This is why I hate playing poker with people that don't understand or are willfully ignorant of basic statistics.Tobor said:You're confused, they're confused. Everybody is confused.
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fortified_concept said:Are we sure this isn't a 4chan hoax? People can't be this stupid.
fortified_concept said:Are we sure this isn't a 4chan hoax? People can't be this stupid.
Archaix 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.
fortified_concept said:Are we sure this isn't a 4chan hoax? People can't be this stupid.
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Admins should ban every IP that tries that combination now :lolFersis said:What the hell?