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> literally everyone who'd want to visit Facebook knows Facebook's URL

Never forget when ReadWriteWeb posted a blog post entitled "Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login", which ended up ranking very highly for the search query "facebook login". It was subsequently innundated with comments from angry people who hated the new redesign and couldn't figure out how to log in... believing that they were on facebook, because they googled "facebook login" and clicked the first result.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100213061037/https://www.readw...

Scroll down for the comments. It's pages and pages of people frothing at the bit looking for anywhere to enter their facebook password.



I forgot about that one. It's interesting how people will hold on to their method of doing things, even if the workaround is harder than doing the direct thing: (one of the comments)

> for those of you that want to get in face book now just go to Bing..put in face book and search (or it will pop up) hit on face book login and it takes you to your password page...i did it.... if this ever gets back to normal I will use the address bar from now on.....




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