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I have a major idealogical problem with this recent trend of sites using Facebook connect. Don't take this the wrong way, but Facebook is a toy. People use it to share party pictures and play Farmville. I would just as soon trust a circus clown to be the central authority on my identity as you guys.

And when I visited a site for the first time to see my Facebook contacts there, without ever having signed up for the site in the first place, I got angry. Really, really angry. And then I got even angrier when I went through the 30 step process of turning off this "feature".

I don't know how representative I am of the population at large, but this stuff drives me nuts. Please stop.



Yeah I find it pretty unnerving as well.

Two opposing viewpoints on my mind:

1.) Facebook is for all practical purposes, fairly ubiquitous. +1 for Facebook Connect on that front.

2.) As you suggest, Facebook is a toy and has no place providing this kind of service. -1 for Facebook Connect.




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