Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks?

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 19, 2012 @11:44AM from the have-your-friends-list-on-my-desk-by-close-of-business dept.

First time accepted submitter rubeon writes "Companies can get a lot of mileage out of social networking services from the likes of Google or Facebook. Chat, document collaboration, and video conferencing using services like Google+ Hangouts or Facebook's Skype are seductive additions to an IT arsenal. But a lot of people have privacy concerns about these services, and there's no shortage of horror stories how these sites track and exploit their users' habits. Would you work for a company that forced its employees to join a social network?"

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Re:Why not, it's just another work tool by sjames · 2012-02-19 13:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Tell them you have dissociative identity disorder and if they won't respect that, all of you will file a class action lawsuit.
Re:Why not, it's just another work tool by Belial6 · 2012-02-19 16:32 · Score: 5, Funny

No, I don't. As long as I've been sexually active, I have compartmentalized information. Among other things, the women I sleep with get to know exactly how I like my balls licked. My mother does not.

I guess some of use are just not as close to our mothers as others.