{"id":2196,"date":"2010-02-14T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/facebook-login-and-the-madness-of-crowds\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:49:14","slug":"facebook-login-and-the-madness-of-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/facebook-login-and-the-madness-of-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"facebook login and the madness of crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readwrite web wrote about Facebook login<\/a><\/p>\n

Which happened to bring them high in the google search results for “facebook login”.<\/p>\n

Then facebook did a re design. I didn’t notice much difference. But some people got confused and looked for the “facebook login” on google. And as we all know
\nclicking on the first result is what one should do (not). Enough people were so convinced that what they actually saw was facebook they got very mad and left comments in this direction.<\/p>\n

Two things become apparent:<\/p>\n

Everybody has computers now. And I mean everybody.
\nAnd many people delegate everything (including their thinking) to google.<\/p>\n

No wonder adsense scams are so profitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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