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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."
Companies should simply block social networking sites or have policies against there use. In my office the average user spends 135% of there work hours logged into facebook 135%?! most of them leave it logged in when they go home
Being generous and counting Android (even though it was only briefly owned by Google between the time Google bought it and the time Google transferred it to the Open Handset Alliance) as a "Google product", and going further with that generosity and counting a story about HTC Android phones as being about Android rather than the specific phones and thus a "Google product", I count 7 of the 18 current front-page stories that are either about social networking sites or Google and its product (one of which is about a forthcoming Google social networking product.)
Being even more generous and assuming that the two next most recent stories were also about social networking sites or Google and its products, that's still less than half of the last 20 stories.
Aren't "nerds" generally supposed to be detail-oriented and numerate?