Facebook the Most Dangerous Social Tool For Businesses

wiredmikey writes "According to a recent study Facebook is by far the most popular and most dangerous social media tool among small-to-medium-sized businesses, with 69 percent of respondents reporting that they have active accounts with this site, followed by Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Facebook is also the top culprit for malware infections and privacy violations, e.g. the leaking of sensitive company information. YouTube took the second spot for malware infection, while Twitter contributed to a significant number of privacy violations. For companies suffering financial losses from employee privacy violations, Facebook was again cited as the most common social media site where these losses occurred, followed by Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn."

Comments

Hmm..

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh my lord... there's MALWARE on Facebook?? I thought all those links for free iPads were real! Noooooo!!!

This shouldn't surprise anyone, really.

Oh well

[Locke2005]

Sadly, slashdot remains last on both the list of sites from which to contract malware infections and the list of sites on which to meet people from which to contract an STD.

Re:"Dangerous" is ambiguous

[mp3LM]

*nix machines are effectively immune to viruses.

Just a note for anyone reading these comments - the parents statement is made up and not true.

Thank you for your time.