Confused Facebook user debacle not what it seems.
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Confused Facebook user debacle not what it seems.
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#2holy smokes that's hard to read. i waited a few seconds for the styling to finish... but it never did.
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#3I've spent probably way to much time thinking about this as well. I'll never forget the looks I got on the train when I was laughing hysterically at those article comments :)
It seemed that a lot of the confused were older judging from their profile pics. I know when I've shown my grandparents how to navigate the internet it's a lot easier to just set Google as their home page and tell them to type in what they want to see.
On the surface it seems to be a usability issue, but there's only so much you can do to help people who don't even really understand the internet and computers.
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#4I thought it was pretty obvious that only the first few pages of comments were even remotely real. Then the internet lolmachine got a hold of it and went nuts.
Still, it saddens me that people are still just typing random shit in the address bar and expecting it to work.
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#5holy smokes that's hard to read. i waited a few seconds for the styling to finish... but it never did.
With apologies to Old Man Murray, that blog's Start to Readability time (StR) is about 0.5 seconds. [1] [2]
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#6holy smokes that's hard to read. i waited a few seconds for the styling to finish... but it never did.
I'm really glad someone on HN pointed me at the Readbility tool. I end up using it every day to make ugly pages easy to read.
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#7It is amazing to this that people need to go to google in order to pull up any site. No, don't type in google.com, type in facebook.com instead. Do you do a google search when logging in to online banking? Checking your email?
And seriously? How much time can one sepnd on facebook in the first place? I swear my uncles and aunts and parents play on it for hours.
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#8holy smokes that's hard to read. i waited a few seconds for the styling to finish... but it never did.
Seriously! White on grey?
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#9holy smokes that's hard to read. i waited a few seconds for the styling to finish... but it never did.
Firebug FTW
Re: Confused Facebook user debacle not what it seems.
#10It is amazing to this that people need to go to google in order to pull up any site. No, don't type in google.com, type in facebook.com instead. Do you do a google search when logging in to online banking? Checking your email? And seriously? How much time can one sepnd on facebook in the first place? I swear my uncles and aunts and parents play on it for hours .
Having done some work for a local credit union, I can tell you that yes people do actually do a google search for their bank to get to their online banking.
One item to consider is that a large portion of these people probably have google as their homepage, so they don't "go" to google, it's just he most conspicuous box when they fire up their browser.