Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook unveiled its rumored "at Work" service to a handful of partners today. Facebook at Work puts co-workers into a standalone social network and allows them to share posts and images appropriate for the workplace but looks and acts just like regular Facebook. "We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient," Lars Rasmussen, Facebook's director of engineering, tells WIRED. "You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we'd like to make that available to the whole world.""

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Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Once you get your company using, then Facebook can change the privacy policy, and sell your workplace pictures, photos, notes, ect to the highest bidder.

Less stuff done

[Anonymous Coward]

News Feed will populate with posts shared by the coworkers who you already interact with the most, Rasmussen says. The posts that see more shares will spread further, until the entire company might see it.

I find that my news feed on Facebook only sorts by popularity. So information that is important, like the death of a friend is hidden under 80 pictures of cats doing stupid stuff. So I expect Facebook at Work will show me lots of "news" about Jenny's promotion, and the death of John's dog, both working in divisions 3 states away, but never see that post from the intern in the data center trying to tell me that the database server has caught fire. No thank you Facebook.

Re:Stop messing with Slashdot

[dmbasso]

It is not the full beta. Just the tip.