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02-15-2010 , 05:27 AM

#26

smittymatt

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Was this really a mass-leveling conspiracy and we all got owned?

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02-15-2010 , 12:06 PM

#27

Thats What Happens

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Originally Posted by smittymatt

Was this really a mass-leveling conspiracy and we all got owned?

this would be terribly sobering

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02-15-2010 , 12:26 PM

#28

checktheriver

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Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 856

Just look at the facebook profile of the 1st person to comment..not really the "internet levelling" type.

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02-15-2010 , 01:08 PM

#29

DonkeyKongSr

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Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 6,299

Not a mass-level (unless someone had many, many, many hours to kill):

Click any of the avatars of the people with the Facebook symbol on them and you will go to their Facebook profiles, which look 100% real. And many of them don't appear to be the leveling type.

Last edited by DonkeyKongSr; 02-15-2010 at 01:11 PM. Reason: Oops, a little slow.

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02-15-2010 , 01:23 PM

#30

Thats What Happens

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Originally Posted by checktheriver

Just look at the facebook profile of the 1st person to comment..not really the "internet levelling" type.

Organizations:
* Join if you want to thank Jesus for dying on the cross for you. ♥

ORLY?

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02-15-2010 , 06:11 PM

#31

4ObliVioN4

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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 3,296

there is no way that is real. i mean ive seen a lot of complete morons in my day but that takes it to another level, wow.

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02-15-2010 , 07:21 PM

#32

fsoyars

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Originally Posted by yowhatsup

The thing is, even if people do Google "Facebook Login/Login Facebook" the main result is the actual Facebook website, so if they had been doing that before the article was written there would be no difference in the position of it.

This article/blog is now like 2nd or 3rd on the list because of all the hits it has been getting. So, for the first hundred comments it would have been even lower on the list of results that it wouldn't be able to confuse all those people.

Here's a post from RWW talking about how it all went down.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives...ernet_meme.php

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When we looked at our traffic, however, we didn't see any of the usual suspects, just two little words on a very big website: "Facebook login" and Google. The post had become the number two search result.

Most likely, when people google "facebook" facebook.com is the first result but when this happened (it has since been fixed) if you googled "facebook login" facebook.com was down the page a bit, behind a number of sites trying to intentionally trick people into visiting their site instead of facebook, as well as the RWW article.

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Google had completely failed its users. It put us, with a post about how an AOL partnership foreshadowed Facebook becoming the de facto user database, above the most logical search result possible - Facebook's login page.

While for us this was completely random, other search results show that this is actually a space that is otherwise intentionally occupied by sites trying to siphon off this traffic and profit from it. I don't think the first search result for "Facebook login" was actually English, and the one that followed wasn't either, but those two key words are used over and over.

Pretty sure it's real. Facebook has over 400 million users. I don't think it's too surprising that a couple hundred of them are brain dead when it comes to the internet.