ReadWriteWeb is a blog hosting articles about various internet products and trends, including social networking sites. On Wednesday they posted a short article about Facebook partnering with AOL.

Right now you're probably thinking the wank is something about the partnership. That wouldn't be nearly as funny as what actually ends up happening.

The first comment, while not wankish in itself, is a sign of things to come: "Ok If I have to I will comment,I love facebook so right now just want to log in if thats ok with you..lol Keep up the good work..."

Soon the comments start flooding in from people thinking that they're on Facebook and demanding to be allowed to log in, many jumping straight to rage against this new "redesign" such as this woman: "I am going to delete my account (IF I CAN EVER LOG IN) as this SUCKS BIG TIME ! If this does not get back to NORMAL you are going to lose a lot of folks who hate this and as you can see from all the comments they think it sucks too !!! facebook was great for connecting with old friends ...now, NOT SO MUCH. SO HOW DO I LOG IN ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

By page three people are wondering if the blog is being trolled, but one of the site maintainers has found the problem! Looking at their traffic stats, she's discovered that they're suddenly getting hits from a bunch of people searching Google for "facebook login". Yes, they're suddenly being flooded by people who don't know how to get to Facebook without searching Google for it. And the article was steadily creeping up the results list all day.

Around this time a big bold paragraph is added to the article informing people that the site is not Facebook, and providing anyone who needs them with links to get there and a suggestion to bookmark the real Facebook login page.

This doesn't help. And, though most people following the thread are amused by what's going on, at the same time the other side of the wank is forming; people who are getting increasing annoyed at the Facebook commenters for ignoring all the people telling them they're not at Facebook, for instance "Wow!

I mean just WOW!.... are people really this f**king stupid, and they rely so blindly on whatever the first link google throws up.

This is NOT facebook you clowns. How god damn retarded are you."

Three days, 27 pages later, and a smattering of news articles later and it's still going on, but at this point the people trying to get to Facebook have tapered off and it's just the people frothing at the mouth about them left.

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	argylespy 2010-02-14 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oh man. We used to have AOL before we switched to cable and now my mother is convinced she's not connected to the internet unless the browser window's open. But even she's not this bad. (Reply to this)

	sgtgeorgecarter 2010-02-14 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	... (Reply to this)

	ara 2010-02-14 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	...reminded of the time someone asked me what the website for Microsoft was. (Reply to this)

	ladyrogue 2010-02-14 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	What. No, really, what. HEY, I KNOW! I lost my keys, do you think Google will help me find them?!?!? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jkefka 2010-02-14 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	I wish I could believe that no-one has said or will ever say that without irony. I am no longer sure. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)