[OpenID] Facebook support for OpenID. Where?

[Santosh Rajan]

I am seeing tweets and blog posts about Facebook support for OpenID. I had
already suggested in an earlier post that it is going to be a farce. And
that is what it exactly is.

You see, I have always maintained that it is impossible for Web site's who
base their user identity on email addresses to support OpenID in the current
form. And let me list out the problems with the so called Facebook OpenId
support.

You can't log in into Facebook with your OpenID unless you are already
logged in to another OpenID provider. So if you fire up your browser and go
straight to Facebook, sorry!

You cannot create a Facebook account with OpenID. You need to create your
Facebook account with your email address, and then log in to your account,
and then go to settings, and then link your OpenID account.

Ok, so I decided to link my Google Account. I found that I could not link to
my Google Account without me handing over all my Google contacts! In other
words Google log in was useless for me.

When I tried to log in with Yahoo and I got the famous Yahoo message
"Warning: This website has not confirmed its identity with Yahoo! and might
be fraudulent. Do not share any personal information with this website
unless you are certain it is legitimate." 

And what I find most embarrassing is the so called "Openid evangelists"
going "gaga" over this release. Maybe it is "Facebook" so they better say
good things, no matter whatever they do.

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Santosh Rajan
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