I've not seen any websites that require a Facebook account to log in, but my immediate reaction on seeing one would be to assume the person who implemented it doesn't know what they're doing and can't be trusted with my data.
Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
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Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#32I'm sorry, but its just not worth expending the extra effort to get you signed up to my service. I can get millions of people before it even starts becoming an issue.
You might make the same argument for only supporting IE as the only browser you app works with. I suspect it's actually an issue from day one as there are folks who would sign up but don't because you require Facebook.
Not for my market. 90% of them have facebook accounts.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#33I'm sorry, but its just not worth expending the extra effort to get you signed up to my service. I can get millions of people before it even starts becoming an issue.
Forcing me to be okay with everyone and their dog seeing what I do on my own time and on a completely different site is unacceptable, and frankly just lazy on their part. That has nothing to do with "commitment." I as a consumer get nothing out of it other than a lack of privacy and the heavy-handed assumption that some startup's "service" outweighs that.
No thanks, and the fact that I'm not the only one means that if you're using FB to authenticate as a startup (IE need to get as many PURCHASING customers as possible), you're doing it wrong.
If I like your service enough, I will make sure to tell people about it. You do not need to try to do that job for me. That's insulting.
Edit: Please note that I realise that you may be an exception if it is something whose market IS a Facebook user (apps, etc), and I am simply addressing the issue as a whole as I have seen completely disparate sites that require a FB login for no reason that I can fathom.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#34This is by far my largest complaint with Quora.
I signed up using twitter oauth recently. This may be new since you looked at Quora.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#35This is by far my largest complaint with Quora.
I registered as well and fired of an email to their feedback contact. The Twitter OAuth process is especially painful on an iPhone. You have to log in to Twitter and approve, then come back to Quora to enter username, password, and email.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#36Is the perception that we will be nefariously ingesting your private data? Or that FB auth is just a trend? Or just a mistaken assumption that all users actually have a Facebook account?
All of the above. And also because, I just don't want to have to use FB to login to a totally unrelated site.
The use case is, I use FB sparingly because I don't have time to get sucked into that pit. I friend people I meet irl, and 'Like' sites that are relevant to my profession (personal branding & networking).
But I don't use it for any other purpose. So if your site isn't relevant to my profession, I don't want to connect via Facebook, and if that's the only login option, you've just lost me.
Every site should have OpenID and/or its own user accounts, so as not to lose users who for one reason or another don't want ot use FB.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#37I've not seen any websites that require a Facebook account to log in, but my immediate reaction on seeing one would be to assume the person who implemented it doesn't know what they're doing and can't be trusted with my data.
Why would you trust a website asking for an email and password more?
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#38Agreed.
I found one service, where they have only Facebook login and it doesn't work for me.
I wrote to them and the assholes just ignored me.
I think it's arrogance. I mean, Google Account would make sense. Many hackers I know don't even have Facebook account.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#39I have a site that requires Facebook to login.
For this site, user fraud is a big concern. I would much rather have an easy way to tell if someone is a "real" person, and Facebook gives me that.
If my market size goes from 1.5B to 500M because of this decision, that's fine. In our case, it's a calculated choice, like the dozens of calculated choices a startup makes every day.