I was browsing around Daring Fireball again, and saw John’s post entitled “Facebook Login”. He goes on to show an excellent example of technological ignorance.
Fascinating. ReadWriteWeb has a weblog post that ranks highly in Google’s search results for “Facebook login”. The comments on the post are filled with complaints from confused people who think that this is the new Facebook login page.
It’s funny, yes, but it’s a fascinating glimpse at just how confused many people are about how web sites and browsers work. They don’t use bookmarks, they don’t type “facebook.com” in the location field. They just Google for whatever they’re looking for and assume the first result is correct. All this argument over whether the iPad is too simple — if anything it’s probably still too complex.
For myself, I have to pick my jaw up off of the floor after having read some of the comments on the ReadWriteWeb article in question. Here are a few goodies:
The new facebook sucks> NOW LET ME IN.
Posted by: John Blair | February 10, 2010 9:47 AM
I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!!!
Posted by: Nicole Gray | February 10, 2010 9:54 AM
I was just learning,why would you mess it up?
Posted by: Richard Gordon | February 10, 2010 10:13 AM
wtf is this bullshttttttttttt all about. can i get n plzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: M arvin Scott | February 10, 2010 10:17 AM
And just to change it up, a voice of common sense:
This is what happens when people use Google to enter sites instead of typing it on their address bar…
Damn you all Farmville users…
Posted by: Rodrigo | February 10, 2010 11:57 AM
Now, I try to avoid belittling the intelligence of others — karma and such — but sometimes it needs to be mentioned. It’s also moments like this that I come to understand certain things about the world, like how Bush got elected not once, but twice, or the Tea Party movement. But that’s starting to go on a political tangent.
Let’s just leave it at this: the collective unintelligence of humanity does nobody any favours.
