Facebook Login (Hey, Google, Over Here!)

HAVE a look at this article on Facebook's evolving and increasingly ubiquitous OpenID-type login and then take a gander at the (fifteen pages of!) comments. What amazes me is how clearly the conversation is divided into two tiers — although I'm not entirely sure how many misspelled, CAPS LOCK-ridden pleas for access in the bottom one are legit or are simply rabble-rousing.

John Gruber has one Apple-related take on it. The other aspect to consider in this unintentional social experiment is how much more freely the angry, half-literate users will be able to offer themselves up for identity fraud or move through the lock-and-key barriers of the Web when Facebook's OpenID login becomes more ubiquitous. I'd like to think that the easier access will give them scores of opportunities for self-edification, but the cynic in me thinks that they'll just find it easier to leave confused, irate comments on articles they haven't bothered to read and understand.