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Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-your-boss dept.

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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  1. More stuff done by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because we want to data mine all your work correspondence as well.

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    1. Re:More stuff done by LessThanObvious · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They have already proven beyond all doubt there is no good reason to trust them. Why would anyone share the details of their professional life or business contacts with them? For some businesses this will be useful, but for the other 95% this is a terrible idea. It's a security risk that can't even yet be quantified. Data will leak, employees and customers will be poached, Phish will be speared. Nice try Facebook, but seriously fuck off.

  2. What about privacy? by lurker412 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure, but what businesses are so dumb that they will share their internal communications with another company?

    1. Re:What about privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How many businesses have outsourced their email to Google or Micro$oft?

      Shittons of businesses are that dumb.

    2. Re:What about privacy? by DigitAl56K · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sure, but what businesses are so dumb that they will share their internal communications with another company?

      For me it wouldn't even be about "with another company", it would be more along the lines of "look how Facebook has repeatedly fucked over the general end user on privacy issues, are we really going to trust our internal communications to these guys?".

    3. Re:What about privacy? by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sure, but what businesses are so dumb that they will share their internal communications with another company?

      Pretty much all of the ones that use that new-fangled telephone. Of course, back in the days when the telegraph was the thing, well, pretty much all of them used that too.

      And the USPS does, in fact, have a pretty solid metadata look inside most businesses, since they know the destination of pretty much every package and letter sent or received in the USA.

      Note that teleconferencing sans Facebook still means the entire datastream is going over wires owned by, well, another business, who can look, or not, at their discretion.....

      In other words, the only thing new here is the Facebook logo....

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    4. Re:What about privacy? by DerekLyons · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Do you like to stick your fingers in your ears and go "la la la la!". Top result:

      Is a completely irrelevant page about a security flaw - not about a hack into Facebook's data.
       

      and why do you think they have this?

      Because it's a damm good idea and best practice? I dunno about you (given your abundantly displayed ignorance), but being proactive and following best practices is a good thing from where I sit.
       

      You have to be really nuts to be defending Facebook of all companies when it comes to user privacy.

      Not at all - because unlike you, I'm not clueless and grasp the issues here.

  3. Oh dang, I'm sorry by thebes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "I thought I was on our work Facebook, not the regular one. Sorry, it will never happen again."

  4. Facebook... by sycodon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...it's like watching legions of people buy Pet Rocks or Cabbage Patch Dolls.

    Why? Just, why?

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  5. Stop messing with Slashdot by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The layout is wrong, on some pages I don't even get a scrollbar and my scrollwheel doesn't work either, what the fuck are you morons doing? Don't experiment with the live servers!

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  6. So, it's Yammer? by pLnCrZy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yammer is like Facebook, but for business!

    Facebook At Work is like Facebook, but for business!

    So Yammer copied Facebook, and Facebook copied Yammer... where's the egg?