We are not Facebook
By Techgirl

Being a Mumbai girl, I thought I had seen it all. Staged traffic accidents,  scam emails,  Bollywood broken dreams and even cowardly terrorists with machine guns.

And then you come across something totally unexpected.  In this case,  it has brought smiles on face of many Americans.

American website ReadWriteWeb was founded in 2003 and has grown to become one of the top 10 tech websites in that country.  PC World magazine and Datamation have listed it among the top 100 tech blogs.  Blog ReadWriteWeb published an article on Feb 10 titled ‘Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login’.

And soon,  this ReadWriteWeb blog post ‘Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login’ started featuring very highly in Google searches.

Believe it or not, there are many people who do not logon directly to Facebook.com and other sites. They actually do a Google, Yahoo and Bing search for Facebook Login and then use the results to hop on to Facebook. In their mind, the first few Google results will always have some link to the real Facebook site.

In a comedy of errors,  the Google search brought up the ReadWriteWeb blog post high up on the results when people searched for Facebook Logon.

And this is bizarre.  Hundreds of people actually thought that the ReadWriteWeb article titled ‘‘Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login’ was the newly designed front page of Facebook.  Not surprisingly,  they could not logon to Facebook from the article and so left frustrated messages on the front page asking why they could not logon. Their comments included mesg such as ‘New Facebook sucks. Now let me in’ and ‘When can we log in’.

Initially dismissed as a joke,  tech blog ReadWriteWeb was finally forced to put a big disclaimer in the article

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Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. You can however click here and become a Fan of ReadWriteWeb on Facebook, to receive our updates and learn more about the Internet. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type "facebook.com" into your browser address bar or enter "facebook" into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as a bookmark in your browser.
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Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog
http://techgirltalk.blogspot.com