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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 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. Re:More stuff done by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      Actually, some spitting variants of ants can do a pretty good job. The formic acid has some neurotoxins that let them stun their prey.

      But, yeah, totally agree.

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    3. 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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  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. He is TOTALLY right! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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!"

  5. 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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  6. Re:Situational Awareness by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then you might have a badly managed workplace?

    Doesn't everybody?

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  7. 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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    1. Re:Stop messing with Slashdot by dmbasso · · Score: 4, Informative

      It is not the full beta. Just the tip.

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  8. 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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  9. 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?

  10. My Worst Nightmare by gunner_von_diamond · · Score: 3

    My only friends are my co-workers!

  11. 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).