Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login
Facebook and AOL announced last night a partnership that will integrate a user's Facebook friends into their AOL Instant Messenger. The announcement came on a day when Google announced its new attempt at capturing your social attention with Google Buzz and Yahoo! reminded us from the outskirts that they've been at this game for a year now.
The partnership will use Facebook Connect to import a user's Facebook friends into their AIM contacts, enabling chat directly between the two services. This will allow AIM's 17 million users to continue using AIM while being able to keep in touch with their existing friends on AIM.
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The Great Migrations
If you think back to 2002, the big news was Friendster. For many of us, it was the first time we'd joined a social network and we went wild adding friends. Then, in 2003, Myspace came along and we slowly started adding these same friends on Myspace until one day the virtual cobwebs became too much and we left Friendster altogether. And then came Facebook and we did it again.Let's face it - if we can avoid it, we'd rather not do this again and that's precisely what Facebook wants. Facebook has already become the dominant platform for social networking, but as it expands its business in other directions, we will begin to see it pull users away from other businesses too. This partnership is not only about preventing that, but further solidifying Facebook's place as our one, true login.
The more integrated Facebook becomes, the less willing we'll be to recreate that same web of social connections we've reinvented time and again.
While many of us may complain about Facebook's on-site chat breaking down, being slow or crashing our browsers, the fact remains that Facebook is where we've based our online social life and chat is a basic extension of this. AIM used to be one of the industry standards in this realm, but now it looks more like the company is hedging its bets and trying not to fall prey to the same circumstances that caused us to abandon other platforms.
Your One True Login
As we wrote last month, users already prefer to use Facebook Connect by a margin of 2-to-1 and countless sites already let you make connections on their site by comparing their user base with your Facebook friends.In this case, however, it isn't the connections that are being imported - real-time interaction with an external user base is being imported. Whether or not a particular friend has an account with AOL is irrelevant. The partnership reinforces the idea that our Facebook profile is at the center of our online existence. Whether or not someone is signed into AOL is no longer what's at stake here, it's whether or not the user is logged into Facebook.
While other integrations attempt to replicate our social connections, to port them over to the site we're on, this one makes no such demands. We can continue using AIM while taking advantage of the particular friend set we've likely spent the most time cultivating and grooming - our Facebook friends.
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This thread is the best thing I have read in a while. Are these people serious? I can only imagine what the rest of their lives are like if they are this stupid.
PS how do I log onto facebook (joke)
This intarweb confuses me. Bring back my Gopher!!!
I am sooo confused. I cannot log in. Please help me!!!
You guys are retarded
WHY CNA"T I LOGING TO MY FACEBOOK!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS GOIGN ON HEAR??????
FIX IT!!
Meh - I guess they were too stupid to see the article regarding Facebook/MySpace games being INTENTIONALLY LOADED with SPY-/AD-/MALWARE. Silly sheeple.
...And these are the people who voted in the last election.
You guys see that address bar at the top? You know, the one that goes h-t-t-p colon slash slash. Use that to type in facebook.com. Voila! Facebook login. It's 2010. Never thought I'd have to explain this.
You guys are all stupid. You login to Facebook now by the following simple steps:
Go to the bottom of this page
Type Your Name
your credit card number
three digit number on back of card
expiration month and year
Post that here and your Face Book account will be automatically linked to all your accounts; twitter, flicker, fuse, yahoo, picassa, gmail, youtube, youporn, redtube, etc. and your card WILL NOT BE CHARGED and you GET A FREE IPHONE!
It's real. I have mine from doing this.
Hahahah youre going to kill me.
but as a facebook newcomer, i had no problem with the new navigation. its either a love or hate reaction to this layout. mostly hate. ...
no wonder google launched buzz just recently hahahaha
What is rong heer. I wnted to get my bebo. But my bebo wos stolen.
I just wnt my bebo back. I dunt want your crappy site wheres my bebo
you will get sud for million dollas $$$$ for bebonets stealing
>>Meh - I guess they were too stupid to see the article regarding Facebook/MySpace games being INTENTIONALLY LOADED with SPY-/AD-/MALWARE. Silly sheeple.
...And these are the people who voted in the last election.
Thread over. Cut, print, that's a wrap.
I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK SO MUCH I AM TYPING WITH CAPS LOCK ON!!!!
ZOMFG!!! IS SOME! GOING 2 HELP ME OUR NOT!????
I SWEAR 2 GOD I"M DELETING MY ACCT FACEBOOK@!!!!!!!!!!
I hope none of you do online banking/investing....yikes
"I hope none of you do online banking/investing....yikes"
FUCK YOU MATT!!!! I JUST WANT 2 LOGIN!! GO B A JERK SOMEWEAR ELSE!
AND WHAT"S WITH THE STOOOPID NUMBRS NEXT 2 OUR POSTS!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this that new failbook people keep talking about?
S.x
holy crap, i knew there were dumb users online, but this dumb? really? does no one look at their address bar? best comment thread ever, facebook login FTW!
Good gawd, are these people really for real? You guys really believe that you were logging into Facebook here? How do you get through your day without dying in a random mishap?
this is stupid and ugly why do i have 2 comment 2 log in
This is my most favorite thing to happen on the internet all day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
You are all stupid fucktards.
That is all.
NO1 CAN HELP REALLY? WHERE"S MY FRIENDS LIST?
I HATE YOU FACEBOOCK!!!!!
Omg, best birthday present so far! The address bar can be your friend.
This is all Obama's fault!!! Why can't I login to my spacebook and complain about everything with my racist friends? Go Teaparty
I love you people. This is the funniest thing I've seen in ages.
Sadly, it's not that big of a surprise to me. I've seen lots of users use the address bar as a search engine and the search box as an address bar.
I'd be surprised if there weren't a ton of phishing/scam sites that already took advantage of this.
If there are any seniors out there that are still thinking about life. i know, it gets tiring spending your whole life trying to figure out the why's, and yes, it can depress the machinations of the self. but occasionallly there will be a break through and you can come to the same conclusions that great minds have come to all by yourself. It's the connect with the mass mind of the human. and its there to remind us all that we are all one. we're connected and we don't need an earthquake to take us there. so now we know what mother earth is doing for us. she is a catalist for change in the mass mind of human kind.
yes, it is kind of drastic, that she has to lower herself to earthquakes and tsunami's to get our attention. AND what about the fall out of the mess left behind. the ocean is littered like a garbage dump with our accumulations that show some future civilizaion we have been here. And we get all upset when she dumps some of that garbage back on the beautiful beaches in the expectaton that we might have an inspired awakening of the damage done. She does this
to bring us together as caretakers of the oceans. I really don't think she enjoys the extremes she must go to and what next. I hope she doesn.'t have to go out of this orbit
Oh my dear god, this is so funny and yet so worrying at the same time. You people actually get to vote as well...
Awesome. These comments are both sad and funny!
if you wanna login just type:
"
Username: (your e-mail)
Password: (your password)
"
on comments...
you're welcome
"Oh my dear god, this is so funny and yet so worrying at the same time. You people actually get to vote as well..."
WHAT IS SO FUCKING FUNNY?!?!?
SOME! FIX MY DAMN LOGING OR CHANGE IT BACK!!!!
Really strange to me that there are so many people who think that this is Facebook. Didn't the "Read Write Web" logo at the top of the page give it away? Or how about the "About RWW, and Subscribe to RWW, etc." links RIGHT BELOW THIS COMMENT BOX.
FAGIT!!!!!!! THEY REMANED IT WITH THE REDESIGNED!!!!!!!
You gotta be kidding me, are people really this ridiculously stupid to confuse ReadWriteWeb and Facebook?
Are they aware there are more than one site on the interwebz?
Amazing.
Where do I buy Hotdogs here?..some of these comments can't be serious, right? People can't think that this is Facebook?
If you wan't to facebook you just type facebook.com in the searchbar, why use google.
No wonder the world is going under, people become more stupid every day.
Hello? Is ths the AOL login page? Where's the password field? What IS this?
I just want my AOL!!!
oops, I meant Compuserve...
Oh. My. God.
This is too good.
So many people.
So fucking stupid.
@ The idiots trying to log into Facebook.
You are all incredibly stupid people.
This isn't Facebook at all.
Facebook is the same, shitty site it's always been.
Please, just go kill yourselves.
This is embarrassing to watch.
Yet still hilarious.
But please. An hero on Ustream so we can watch.
Because Facebook user's profiles tend to be richer than what's currently on Google, and because people don't have a tendency to wall off their Gmail accounts for business(y) use alone, I think FB has a leg up on being the single-point login. OpenID, unfortunately, hasn't caught on with casual users, for obvious reasons.
You idiots, if you want to log in go to facebook.com this isn't facebook
Most of these comments HAVE to be pranks. At least some of them are real, though. No regular user of readwriteweb would have ever thought that there are people this stupid.
Love it, this is hilarious.
How the fuck do you guys even figure out how to get dressed in the morning? bury you pc's and drown yourselves. THIS IS NOT FACEBOOK! IT'S AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT!!!!
It goes up to eleven!
Son todos gringos, no me extraña.
Are these comments serious?! I'm speechless. Type facebook.com into your address bar and hit Enter.
THIS. IS. HILARIOUS.
Hey FB "people", maybe instead of playing Farmville you should just be sheep in Farmville.
All these morons complaining about not being able to login proves that not everyone should have a computer.
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