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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.""
Because we want to data mine all your work correspondence as well.
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Sure, but what businesses are so dumb that they will share their internal communications with another company?
We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient," Lars Rasmussen, Facebook's director of engineering
Uhh, yeah. Where's the quote from the director of engineering without the clearly vested interested? I'm suspect thatyou'd be hard-pressed to find a credible DoE who is ready to champion Facebook as a collaboration tool for their business.
"I thought I was on our work Facebook, not the regular one. Sorry, it will never happen again."
I used Facebook as a situational awareness tool in the workplace. Often times, I would find out what's happening at the workplace through Facebook long before I'd hear it through official channels.
"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.""
I am a professional stuff doer. I used to use Microsoft Office but I found I could only crunch numbers, make presentations and write documents.
But do stuff?
Nope.
Then came facebook at work and all the changed!
My boss walked into my cube and asked, "Anon, how do you get all this stuff done so fast!"
I said, "facebook at work."
He was so impressed. He then said, "I tell you. I get THE best workers from Dice.com! Oh, I'm glad to see that you are Slashdot because we all know, to get the latest in IT, software development news, security and everything that a company and worker needs to know, is on Slashdot - a Dicey company!"
...it's like watching legions of people buy Pet Rocks or Cabbage Patch Dolls.
Why? Just, why?
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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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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.
I heard you work at Facebook, so we put Facebook on your computer so you can use Facebook while you work at Facebook
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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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.
I work for a major corporation and they started blocking FB last year. They found that FB was disrupting too many people so it makes our work day more efficient.
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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?
No more FB on my iPhone or iPad.
It's like they double down on the p3rV factor each time they do something.
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Everyone keeps trying to turn the work day into one constant meeting. Good luck with that.
"...we'd like to make that available to the whole world."
Yup, they make your 'stuff' available to the world. Even when you don't want them to.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Really, what happened to Demuhcracy, Freedom? If your workplace get "facebook at work" it will be forced on you and you will be spied on at every move with eternal retention of data by an immensely rich rogue entity.
They will make a strong shadow profile on your other "you" if don't have a personal account, and if you do well you know what happens. Think about what it takes to fully get out of it. You will have to join the french legion to somewhat get rid of your facebook identity and never see your friends and family again.
...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.""
It's probably a good thing they used the word "stuff" here, as "jack shit" would likely come across as a bit harsh. And honest.
As far as global availability, that's rather arrogant coming from the keeper of the worlds largest database of HUMINT. As if they need more market domination? They're so damn big now governments buy data from them.
Meaning no privacy, and a user authentication system that can be cracked by a blind script kiddie.
I doubt Facebook Inc. meant to be honest but they were so busy trying to monopolize social (online) infrastructure they forgot their weaknesses.
You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of
I know of one tool that I - and many, many others - can get shittons of work done with: concentration. Think about / work at a problem. Tinker. Fail, wrong direction, try again. Think, work, tinker. Only necessary precondition: no distractions. Works great. Tiring ? Hell, yeah. Rewarding ? Fuck, yeah.
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My only friends are my co-workers!
The media will popularize it like it is in the in thing and moron CEO's that follows whatever the media tells them is the in thing at the time will play along. We have seen these moronic decisions made in mass time and time again.
I have my doubts that it will take this time but who would have thought people would be that stupid to blindly turned over all their contacts to the Facebook-government. Even Zuckerberg got caught mocking his user base in disbelief of how stupid they are.
"You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of"
Sounds like a candidate. Let's use Facebook at Work for Linux startup management.
Kind of like how we all use the Lifestreams interface for our OS's http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html with much improved workflow.
... he's update this for social media.
The difference is, you actually can make money selling social media snake-oil to companies. For now, at least...
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I am hoping my hardest hope that my employer won't use this. Right now we're forced to use the thoroughly horrendous Jive app for internal social media "needs", and I fear that Facebook's offering might be better. I fear this because the awfulness of Jive is currently an excellent excuse to avoid using it at all. Replacing it with something less awful might make it more difficult to avoid.
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).
"Facebook sniffs corporate pockets as relevancy tumbles"
"Rift-acquiring Facebook distracts stockholders by following Microsoft and Google into the office after VR takes over at CES"
"You have a friend request from NSA."
Because if there's one thing Facebook has done, it's made people productive at work.
I'm sure businesses will be happy to have all of their internal communications, memos, files, and more indexed and stored by Facebook.
No, that's the NSA's job.
Didn't you get the memo?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"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."
I dunno, a private jabber server works fine for us and is far more secure than Facebook.
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...if they ever consider "Facebook For Work". Mark Zuckerburg is backstabbing sleazebag who has no conscience. Consider how he joined the Winklevoss twins' "Harvard Connection" (aka ConnectU) project, stole their ideas, and delayed the ConnectU project whilst he set up his own project (TheFacebook.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... His attitude to users is one of absolute contempt, and total disregard for their personal data confidentiality. Does your management really want him having access to your internal emails? If it's not blocked by your worksite due to NSFW language, point your management to http://www.newyorker.com/magaz... Here's a relevant snippet from the article
=== Begin Snippet ===
The technology site Silicon Alley Insider got hold of some of the messages and, this past spring, posted the transcript of a conversation between Zuckerberg and a friend, outlining how he was planning to deal with Harvard Connect:
FRIEND: so have you decided what you are going to do about the websites?
ZUCK: yea I'm going to fuck them
ZUCK: probably in the year
ZUCK: *ear
In another exchange leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, Zuckerberg explained to a friend that his control of Facebook gave him access to any information he wanted on any Harvard student:
ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how'd you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don't know why
ZUCK: they "trust me"
ZUCK: dumb fucks
=== End Snippet ===
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
Is the Facebook At Work app standalone or hosted by FB? If it's hosted by FB, what happens when your corporate internet connection goes down. Internal email would still work, but a "cloud-hosted app"...?
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
Presumably it would be hosted by FB. And I suspect for most companies that if the corporate internet connection goes down there are bigger issues than not being able to access corporate facebook.