Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on?

Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by desigooner on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @09:35PM (#1593514)

Personally, I'm wary of sharing my facebook credentials with a site that I don't trust yet or don't peruse regularly. I'd rather fill out the details or actually use my twitter id instead as I'd consider that a throwaway compared to my facebook account. This paranoia just goes up considering that the vendor in question is Facebook, someone who doesn't have the cleanest record when it comes to privacy of data.

Have you implemented or thought of implementing twitter's Oauth functionality instead? I wonder how that'll work out for you.

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Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by theBobMcCormick on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:00PM (#1593570)

I'm assuming he's talking about using Facebook Connect, which is based on Oauth, so the user wouldn't have to share their Facebook credentials with his site. (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web#login).

I agree with you that sharing your Facebook credentials or your email credentials (especially your email credentials) with another site is foolishly stupid.

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Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by desigooner on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:50PM (#1593658)

I understand that user doesn't share credentials but usually, with facebook connect, the only method available to connect is where the site grabs a ton of information from facebook (name, email, profile interests, etc.) .. I'm not so sure I'd want to share it unless there's a reason to it..

e.g. Huffington Post asks for basic info (name, profile pic, gender, user id, list of friends and then some), access to my newsfeed, interests and likes, and my current city .. this is only to comment on a post .. it seems like overkill to me and as a result i wouldn't really use facebook connect in this instance.

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Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by tejaswiy on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:01PM (#1593571)

I agree, I'm actually much more inclined to use my Google / Twitter accounts over Facebook. Maybe that's just a temporary thing.

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