When you Create Your Account, Please log in.

I’ve always found it annoying when programmers create systems where you create your account and then you’re not logged in. Maybe I’m lazy? I decided to do a poll on a popular social networking site. The poll went like this:

When signing up for a new web site, do you mind logging in after signing up?

The two options were:

• If I create an account, it should already log me in.

• I don’t mind logging in after I create my account (it proves I know my password)

Overwhelmingly (ok only 78% but still…) response has been in favor of creating an account and logging in automatically. I think that we should take the extra step when creating applications to make this process streamlined for users.