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 sucks,why when something works and we get used to it,they have to change it and mess it up!
Quit this crap and let me sign in!
Could I just log on please!
Quit this carp and let me sign in!
i liked the old way better what advantages do we have with the new way takes to long to sign in fix it back
I just want to get into my Facebook page.
dont like new face book
I am going to delete my account (IF I CAN EVER LOG IN) as this SUCKS BIG TIME ! If this does not get back to NORMAL you are going to lose a lot of folks who hate this and as you can see from all the comments they think it sucks too !!! facebook was great for connecting with old friends ...now, NOT SO MUCH. SO HOW DO I LOG IN ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Just let me sign in
this sucksssss how do i get on my screen?
Looking good
this sucks
bring me back old facebook
this is sheet
hello i want in now whats goin on,jus wen i wasstartin 2 ike it
im glad im not da only one mad
hopefuly it might get us somewhermayb
on a big snow storm????????????????????????
I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK PAGE , IN FACT I HAVE STARTED TO VISIT IT LESS, BECAUSE IT IS A HASSLE
Who's idea was this?? Hope he's not too big to fire cause he just LOST a bunch of faithful users. Chances are it'll never be the same as it was before....cya
sucks
This is a waste of everyone's time!!! Fix this fast!!
this is a bunch of bullsh--! am i loged in?
The new facebook is ok
ummm guys? Everyone realizes this page is not Facebook right? To login to Facebook, go to Facebook, and use the login option. This is a blog post about Facebook which references logging in.
i just want to get on fb and what a mess this is. How do you get on? Help
what the fuck!!!!!~!~
Like the old log in better!!!
I was having a bad day before I saw this thread. Feeling better now. Thanks, all of you! Awesome comments thread XD
Why do all these people think RWW is Facebook? What search term are they putting into Google to get to this page?
i dont like the new
I would just like to login please. I love facebook.
im going back to my fuckin space u ass holes have to fuck up a good this !!!!! dumn asses
This is the most awesome comment thread ever. Thank you everyone for making my day.
I know the Interwebs can be confusing and what's with all these boxes at the top of your browser window?
hello
WOW. LOL.
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....
if this ever gets back to normal I will use the address bar from now on.....
*likes this*
Comment no. 81: "im going back to my fuckin space u ass holes have to fuck up a good this !!!!! dumn asses"
There is just way too much epic hilarity in this thread -- blog comment GOLD.
This is too funny. No, really, it's TOO funny. The desperation in the voices of those separated from their beloved Facebook. The nearly crack-like addiction apparent in their comments. The bizarro lack of awareness of where they are (as in, not at the Facebook site). Love the Farmville comment Rodrigo!
I can only assume these idiots are typing "facebook login" into google.
This made my day... people are hilarious. I find it even funnier that they read presumably read the post, found a comment box, and posted a comment, all without figuring out they weren't actually on Facebook.
WHAT THE HELL??????? I JUST WANT TO SIGN IN. LOL
Ok so just when i thought I had about 65% learned facebook, you go and change stuff. No fair.
Hahaha, funny thread! :)
i dont like this its to much for such a simple thing
These people should search for "bookmark" first. My favorite: "The new facebook is ok" ... like Facebook turning into RWW isn't all bad. Wow, stunning thread. Too funny, but kind of tragic at the same time!
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February 10, 2010 1:27 PM
Ha ha, you forgot to tell all these users to not just type www.facebook.com into their browser, but to right click and bookmark/favorite/whatever facebook and use that bookmark so they never do something as stupid as using google to find facebook again (and don't encourage them to do that, using google to find a site you probably go to frequently is silly). Seems like Facebook didn't win any fans over with that last update, though.
oh facebook. I hope you realize you have many miles to go before many of your users figure out FB connect. meanwhile let me just say WHEREZ MY FACEBOOK I WANNA LET ME IN SUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Agreed! Best comment thread ever. How do more of these people not get caught up in phishing schemes?
I just want to be able to sign in without any hassle!
I just want to log in to Facebook. I don't have time to mess around with all this other stuff!
All well and good but all I want to do is sign in and play My Farmville game now how do I get on.
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