OT: Humanity down the shitter, exhibit #7,496,193
So I was poking around the Bylaw Blog that Brian linked in today's front page, and clicking through and reading around, I found this:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true…
The Bylaw Blog post of interest is here:
http://bylawblog.com/2010/02/forms-and-n00bs/
Summary: There are people - a lot of people - who in order to log into their Facebook accounts, do not bookmark Facebook or type www.facebook.com into their browser. No, they google "facebook login" and click on the top link. And when what they find isn't what they expected (i.e. not Facebook, but an oft-read blog post concerning Facebook), they complain en masse in the comment section that the Facebook redesign sucks and how are they supposed to log in to their accounts because they can't find the login page.
I don't know what to say.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:42 PM ^
if these folks can't get into Facebook then they won't be able to post what our favorite Michigan players or high school recruits are doing!!! How dare that blog impede our creepy cyberstalk!
But, yea 4shure, them folkz iz lol dum.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
I have heard people say that exact thing. However, those two people were women of the age of 68 and 69 respectively and only started using computers when facebook took off and they thought they could reconnect with some long lost friends.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:14 PM ^
*snicker*
February 24th, 2010 at 3:46 PM ^
I think that is the highest MGopoint post amount I've ever received.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:44 PM ^
The internet used to be cool back before we let stupid people online.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:48 PM ^
You mean AOL, right?
February 24th, 2010 at 5:45 PM ^
no, man. old school. straight BBS.
February 24th, 2010 at 8:07 PM ^
I mean AOL is when it all began to go wrong. Remember when the intarwebs used to be referred to as an information superhighway? My favorite description of AOL is: "a busload of Ebola victims, lobbing hand grenades at the other drivers."
Oh, and I still have TIN and PINE on my machines.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:02 PM ^
Yeah, but don't tell me you don't miss getting those AOL CDs in the mail.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:26 PM ^
Does PINE still have that weird "finger" function?
February 24th, 2010 at 5:57 PM ^
Dialing up with my blazing fast 2400 baud modem in my Packard Bell 386sx, only to hear a busy signal. Then the amazing upgrade of automatic redial happened and the world was never the same.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:48 PM ^
PC Load Letter, what the fuck does that mean?
February 24th, 2010 at 3:08 PM ^
Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks...
February 24th, 2010 at 3:48 PM ^
ass clown."
February 24th, 2010 at 2:50 PM ^
were a terminal illness.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:03 PM ^
I like the take of Judge Smails. "Well, the world needs ditch diggers too."
February 24th, 2010 at 2:50 PM ^
Oh. My. God.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:54 PM ^
I'd like to come up with something witty and clever to say, but I can't. It's just too bizarre to comprehend.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:01 PM ^
I was talking to someone the other day who was ADAMANT that the guy who played the air traffic controller in the early part of Close Encounters was Morgan Freeman.
Nooo...that's not Morgan Freeman, I said. Go look it up on IMDB!
"Okay," she said. "Then she paused...what's the address for IMDB? Oh, nevermind. I have it bookmarked somewhere."
Then she proceeded to hunt through all of her bookmarks for www.imdb.com. She's not stupid. She's just in her 60s and not used to doing things the way you and I would.
(btw, I've watched this multiple times and I'm still not sure if it's Morgan Freeman or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW10xCub3Kg )
February 24th, 2010 at 4:45 PM ^
Full cast list on imdb says no:
David Anderson ... Air Traffic Controller
Richard L. Hawkins ... Air Traffic Controller
Craig Shreeve ... Air Traffic
Bill Thurman ... Air Traffic
February 24th, 2010 at 7:59 PM ^
"(btw, I've watched this multiple times and I'm still not sure if it's Morgan Freeman or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW10xCub3Kg )"
I'm going to trust that you did it and just didn't mention it, but please tell me you didn't make fun of somebody for that and then go and not look it up yourself?
February 25th, 2010 at 10:55 AM ^
It is definitely not Morgan Freeman. Sounds remarkably like him but looks about as much like Morgan Freeman as I do.....and I am 6'0 tall, 180lbs and white.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:06 PM ^
Do you have the links for the other 7,496,192 examples, as well?
February 24th, 2010 at 3:12 PM ^
on the internet and you can work backwards from there.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:29 PM ^
Video List is found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q055xrM1aIs
February 24th, 2010 at 3:23 PM ^
Not completely related, but I've always loved sending this to people and see how long it takes them to figure it out.
February 24th, 2010 at 5:43 PM ^
It breaks down roughly as follows:
7.2 million examples: Youtube comments
250,000: Posts on intertubes forums involving 9/11 and moon landing conspiracy theories
46,180: Couches burned outside designated redneck holding areas (e.g. Morgantown)
12: Articles by Michael Rosenberg
February 24th, 2010 at 3:06 PM ^
This has to be the only time "I'm feeling lucky" has failed to work, EVER!
February 24th, 2010 at 3:21 PM ^
If it makes everyone feel any better, some of these people are your doctors, bus drivers, gas station attendants, and school teachers. So stupidity and techno-illiteracy span a wide spectrum.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:45 PM ^
WTF man. Ignorance is bliss.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:27 PM ^
My poor grandma. I had brunch with her last sunday and she thought I would like an email she recieved showing funny pictures of cats in hilarious poses. Rather than forward the email, she printed it out and gave it to me at brunch... all 12 pages of it.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:45 PM ^
My grandpa needed to be taught how to turn on a cell phone for half an hour once.
"Hold the red button until the lights come on. No, not that one. The red one. Don't just push it, hold it. Let go once it's on. Let go grandpa. Grandpa! Let it go."
Then he tried to use it a day later and couldn't figure it out, so he gave up and the phone sits in a drawer at his house. At least he's not still paying for service though...
February 24th, 2010 at 6:56 PM ^
i just bookmarked this page so i can find this comment again
February 24th, 2010 at 3:27 PM ^
oh god...
the comments on that blog, they make me weep!
February 24th, 2010 at 3:42 PM ^
This is soon going to be flooded with people's ridiculous IT stories, but I've got one.
I worked as an IT intern for a city government, and my boss (head of IT, there were only three of us) was going to check out someone's computer and someone else grabbed him to say theirs wasn't turning on. She was adamant that it had worked the day before and now was doing nothing. He didn't have time to deal with it so he called me.
As I got upstairs to her desk he was walking the other way. "False alarm," he said, "The monitor was just off."
Evidently she left it on all the time and I'd turned it off after doing updates the night before.
I would have been angry, but the lady was really sweet and I wasn't inconvenienced at all, so it just ended up being funny... until I realized that good heavens, that woman has a license to drive a vehicle on public roads!
February 24th, 2010 at 3:49 PM ^
I have a friend who works in tech. support for an accounting software firm. I guess he was on the phone with one woman and getting a bit frustrated.
He told her, "Ok, tell me exactly what you see on your desktop right now."
To that, she replied, "Well...let's see: my keyboard, monitor, mouse and coffee mug."
February 24th, 2010 at 4:52 PM ^
haha this is a quote from one of the commenters mocking the people who were trying to access the real facebook:
"It’s like… Like if you asked a friend if there was a Starbucks in his neighborhood and he said, yeah I think there’s one half a mile down, maybe. And you drive half a mile and see a big carwash place, and you park and walk in and ask to speak to the manager. And you tell the carwash manager how unhappy you are with this terrible new Starbucks redesign."
so true.
February 24th, 2010 at 6:11 PM ^
While I won't share this individuals information, one of the commenters posted the following (more or less):
"email: [email protected]
Password: xxxxxxxxxxxx
Please log me in."
HE ACTUALLY GAVE HIS EMAIL AND PASSWORD!!
Wow, just wow.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:22 PM ^
Every year, tech-support people field countless calls from those confused about the location of the "Any key" on their keyboard, which they were instructed to press.