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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. 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.

  3. 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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