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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. Re:More stuff done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One wrong line of code and all my work-inappropriate stuff will suddenly be thrown in the face of co-workers while they are trying to do their jobs.

    I trust this about as far as an ant can spit.

  2. Slashvertizement ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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

    Well, if a guy who works at Facebook says it, it must be true.

    This article is complete crap.

    The use of social media in most companies is a complete joke -- it doesn't add anything of value in most cases, it's just hopping on the latest stupid trend.

    Every time I've seen a corporation trying to "leverage social media techologies in-house" my bullshit alarm bells go off, and the end results are under-whelming toys which don't actually provide any business value -- other than giving people badges for participating.

    Hell, in at least two cases, I've seen a reduction in business value over what had already been there. Because the social media wasn't useful for anything.

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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  3. Re:What about privacy? by DerekLyons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?"

    Looking at how Facebook has repeatedly failed to fuck over end users with privacy issues - I'd be tempted to trust them. You pretty much never hear of data being accidentally exposed (due a fault with Facebook rather than user cluelessness) and I've never heard of Facebook being hacked. (Hint: Openly selling data, as the user agreed to when they "signed" the terms of service, is *NOT* the same fucking someone over in a manner that would cause a private user with a different TOS concern.)

  4. What I want to know by SLot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is the part about the plan to sell your information to your prospective new employer when you change jobs?

    "oh, well, it seems like he wasn't really a team player - only posted once every couple of days. better rescind that job offer."

    this is a horrible idea, all the way down. (turtles not included).