How can you confuse a newspaper article with a login form if you have any ability to read and understand what you read? Yeah, the word facebook is used, and the facebook logo is on the page. But if you RTFA...
Anyway, acting stupid is as bad as being stupid. Worse, even.
I don't understand this. Why is it so hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt?
The whole piece boils down to that. And it's very useful advice for arrogant computer dweebs. You can't just write people off like that successfully.
And you certainly can't do it because 100 out of N misdirected users of one of the most popular sites on the internet don't have the correct mental model for what's going on or complete confidence in that model.
"100 out of N misdirected users"
Good point....I agree with the idea that whoever got confused by that article is stupid (I mean, if you can't figure out you are reading an article, then is the state of stupid even possible), but it was a fairly small sample of people, considering how many people log in to facebook per minute.
But then, I guess we're back to the question of why they navigate to facebook via google....sigh.
I used to be arrogant like that (still to some extend) and I absolutely understand where you are coming from. Seeing other people screwing up on things that seems extremely obvious and no-brainer can be annoying and can be confused as being stupid.
Actually the facebook login case was one of people using computers using a limited skillset(ie using search bar for everything), not necessarily being stupid. Well, that plus being impatient.
On a personal note: my mother in law used to only use browsers history (down arrow) to access her sites. Since she only uses about 10 sites this worked very well for her.
One day, she was very upset, when my browsing on her computer "broke" her computer.
She is not stupid, and once I showed her how to set up shortcuts on toolbar, her computer was "fixed".
Anyway, acting stupid is as bad as being stupid. Worse, even.