I will be employed forever!
I don’t like making fun of people who struggle with technology too much. Obviously, technical support makes up a huge part of my job but I often sympathize with those who might not be as tech savvy or have stronger skills in other aspects of their jobs. But this caught my eye:
Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login
A seemingly innocuous article, talking about the growth and expansion of Facebook. Take a moment to look closer though: It has a pretty bizarre disclaimer in the middle of it that doesn’t seem to fit too much with the general feeling of the article. Now look at the comments, they’re just as random: plenty of people saying “I can’t login”, “I just want to get to my facebook”, “what is this”. Pages upon pages of these comments, hundreds of people.
Here’s what happened. The article was published and Google ranked it as the first result for the search query ‘Facebook Login’. General people in the world googled ‘facebook login’ to get to facebook.com and ended up there. Better still, the site where the article is hosted uses Facebook Connect for their commenting, so hundreds of confused users tried to login and then ended up commenting on an article that stumbled across.
The whole situation is detailed here.
As an IT professional, this pretty much fills me with the greatest feeling of job security ever.