Useless forms
While creating an account at an online financial site I ran across this little gem of a form and couldn’t help but laugh.
Wikipedia defines a signature as:
A signature is a handwritten (and sometimes stylized) depiction of someone’s name (or some other identifying mark) that the person writes on documents as a proof of identity and will. It acts as a seal.
Can someone please explain to me how retyping my name serves this purpose? I’m sure there is some legal reason why this is required, but in all honesty this is a huge waste of everyone’s time. If the sole purpose is to confirm that the user has read and agrees to the terms said above then ask them to check a box and save them from useless typing.
January 6th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Wow, that’s all sorts of retarded. I work with a lot of financial websites for my job, but have never seen that.
January 13th, 2006 at 9:13 am
LOL. That is retarded.