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Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by brymaster on Sunday November 10, 2013 @11:34AM (#6707127)
If one wants to log into a website that isn't facebook, one shouldn't be forced to have a login from a "social network" they don't use.
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by chaz on Sunday November 10, 2013 @11:38AM (#6707148)
Shouldn't you be blaming the site for only giving you only one option? Why didn't they provide a second?
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by KyeRussell on Sunday November 10, 2013 @11:41AM (#6707163)
If someone wants to use a website, they should use the website. If they don't want to use the website (this includes the login mechanism) then they don't. If your belief that Facebook logins are a bad thing is widespread, people will stop only implementing Facebook logins because it's a bad business decision. Stop whining because the market doesn't agree with you.
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by brymaster on Sunday November 10, 2013 @12:16PM (#6707351)
> If someone wants to use a website, they should use the website.

…except when that website first make you use facebook.

> If your belief that Facebook logins are a bad thing is widespread, people will stop only implementing Facebook logins because it's a bad business decision.

These things are a slow process.

> Stop whining because the market doesn't agree with you.

Luckily, my "whining" (the part about the social logins that you could only argue against, my privacy points were bulletproof and spot-on) is backed up by evidence:

http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Privacy-Concerns-Keep-Users...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408735

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603204

Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by sbarre on Sunday November 10, 2013 @11:39AM (#6707150)
That's not really Facebook's fault though.
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by avmich on Sunday November 10, 2013 @11:53AM (#6707233)
Are you sure that it isn't something somehow related to Facebook which makes those site to use Facebook login, and not, say, its own?
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by tedunangst on Sunday November 10, 2013 @01:51PM (#6707853)
What is this something that forces sites to use FaceBook login and not implement their own?
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by Killswitch on Sunday November 10, 2013 @02:55PM (#6708129)
People who complain about yet another login they have to use when "you can just use Facebook or Twitter to login"
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by tedunangst on Sunday November 10, 2013 @05:46PM (#6708814)
That's an argument for implementing both Facebook and native logins. It's not an argument for refusing to implement native logins at all.
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by lowkeykiwi on Sunday November 10, 2013 @03:16PM (#6708225)
twitter accounts are the best near-universal logins. fast to setup, complete anonymity and easy 2 click comment signin.
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by Killswitch on Sunday November 10, 2013 @03:29PM (#6708287)
I agree, but it still comes back to the same problem. Relying on another site membership. What if SiteA uses Twitter to login because they don't want to make people have yet another login account, but I don't have a Twitter account... Great, so now I have to sign up at Twitter to sign up at SiteA... Making me have to have an account at a site I don't want to have an account at, just to have an account at a site I DO want to have an account at, just because Twitter is more popular.
Re:Dear Facebook: You Suck by timmm on Sunday November 10, 2013 @02:07PM (#6707919)
That's as arbitrary as saying you must have pink hair to use my website. It's a dumb decision on the companies behalf, and for that reason not a legitimate concern with reputable companies.