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Many Diablo 3 players are playing on laptops they normally use just to login to Facebook.
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He gave her the login details to his Facebook account.
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Although it has the same kind of simple approach to a login as a Facebook or Twitter pop-up window, Persona's emphasis is on privacy: it stops paying attention the moment credentials go through, keeping any diatribes or subscription details from landing in social streams or central databases.
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Known initially as Facebook Connect, the service appears as a "login with Facebook" button on many sites and allows users to quickly sign in to those sites using their Facebook credentials.
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There are, however, several third-party applications that repackage Twitter's mobile site and several more to which we didn't feel comfortable handing out our Facebook login credentials.
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Similarly, Facebook and Twitter send login credentials over a secure line and then revert to an unsecure protocol. (Users of those social networks can add an "s" after "http" to force the systems to encrypt their browsing.) Social networking sites are where people increasingly conduct private conversations, whether through Facebook's Messages or Twitter's Direct Message feature.
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There are other reputation sites, like soulgoal.com (which also uses a Facebook login) and Duedil, a site for due diligence that is supposed to open in late November.
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You go to login on a new machine, and you realize that your minty fresh browser has no recollection of your Facebook password.
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