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For my little side project I’m using email only. Tangentially related, I quite like Medium’s workflow where you don’t need to enter passwords anymore. You just enter your address, they send a login email, you click the link in your email, and it redirects you to Medium, logged in.
There's an evil with social login in that you give up the knowledge of your social (presumably personal) network to random 3rd parties. That's even worse than email address. With password managers being essentially mandatory now, it's not too hard to create a new email/password based account for every new site. But recently I realized that I don't use my FB for anything. I have zero friends, don't allow friend reques…
Looking through some of my Facebook apps: Headspace, Stack Exchange, and Netflix only have my email address. Venmo is an example that asks for my friend list because they want to use it for social features.
I'm currently working on a project which has only social login (but allows you to choose between facebook and google) and this was a very deliberate move. For any given person on this planet, there is a higher chance that they use facebook or gmail over any other "service", so no need to offer support for 10 different social logins. Also, this is more about imposing a qualitative filter on the users who sign up. If t…
Sounds a bit scary is this some kind of cult as a service offering?
It’s well known that a significant percentage of people won’t sign up with a social login. What is it about those lost users that appears to assign them less of a value in your business model?
Quality of customer is definitely a consideration in certain cases, for example some businesses have been more successful after raising prices.
However in this case I don’t see the benefit unless maybe there’s some kind of inherent need to verify identity or something along those lines which doesn’t seem to truly be a significant requirement in that many cases.
For my little side project I’m using email only. Tangentially related, I quite like Medium’s workflow where you don’t need to enter passwords anymore. You just enter your address, they send a login email, you click the link in your email, and it redirects you to Medium, logged in.
Whenever I see a regular user of any other service have to reset their password to login in anyway, I’m like man this password thing is kind of not that useful
Not a fan so not defending but I wouldn't classify Google as social login.
Email was the original social network (still left).
The definition of social networking is debatable, but I don't think one that encompasses every communication medium is useful.
For my little side project I’m using email only. Tangentially related, I quite like Medium’s workflow where you don’t need to enter passwords anymore. You just enter your address, they send a login email, you click the link in your email, and it redirects you to Medium, logged in.
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Email was the original social network (still left).
By that definition, the telegraph was the original social network, preceding emails by over a hundred years. The definition of social networking is debatable, but I don't think one that encompasses every communication medium is useful.
You could probably implement a social network on top of TELEX if your we're feeling ascetic though.
For my little side project I’m using email only. Tangentially related, I quite like Medium’s workflow where you don’t need to enter passwords anymore. You just enter your address, they send a login email, you click the link in your email, and it redirects you to Medium, logged in.
Side topic I hadn’t considered... If you don’t use 2FA on your google or Facebook account, how are delighted authentications any better than password reuse? They actually seem worse / less secure.
Edit: I think you were asking about the other direction. It's still not as bad, because if you are sharing passwords and any service was breached, all you services would be exposed. But with delegated authentication, breaching one service doesn't expose your whole account. The one exception is if they breach Google or Facebook.
There's an evil with social login in that you give up the knowledge of your social (presumably personal) network to random 3rd parties. That's even worse than email address. With password managers being essentially mandatory now, it's not too hard to create a new email/password based account for every new site. But recently I realized that I don't use my FB for anything. I have zero friends, don't allow friend reques…
Websites using Facebook login usually don't ask for any of your Facebook information, just your email address. They also implicitly have the public information on your profile since they have your Facebook ID, and I suppose it does reveal information to say that this user and email address is associated with this public Facebook profile. But they definitely don't get anything close to the read permissions you have on…
This is absolutely false. FB delivers a whole profile.