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Re: Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login (ReadWriteWeb/Google/Facebook debacle)

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More importantly, this highlights a more interesting and descriptive problem with technology today. Not that people are stupid, but just how detached a sizable chunk of the population is from the new structure of our society. If there are people who have trouble telling which site they are on, how many people are there out there who can’t use the site at all?

These are truly amazing things to consider, being that our society is essentially bound at the hilt to technology-based communication. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, it really is true: what seemed like barrage of really stupid people turned out with more careful inspection to be probably the most stupendous example of the tech divide you will see for, at minimum, a very long time. Not stupid people, but people who don’t know — perhaps can’t be bothered to know — about the address bar. People who use the internet for certain specific functions, and nothing beyond that. People who only want to know how to do what they need to do, and precisely nothing else.