I just don't believe having Facebook opened at work will in any way increase my productivity.
Facebook at Work
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Re: Facebook at Work
#22I clicked this hopeful that Facebook had made a new product tailored to the needs of an office. Instead it seems like they recently decided that their existing product just happens to already be the perfect product for the office and rebranded it. I don't buy this at all, teams don't actually collaborate by sending each other green giraffe stickers.
People who use Slack do.
To clarify it's not that emoticons can't be part of how people communicate at work. I just couldn't really believe those exchanges they were showing there. Slack puts the whole conversation right in front of you and makes link and searching really comfortable. The fb share box really isn't meant for that.
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#24I clicked this hopeful that Facebook had made a new product tailored to the needs of an office. Instead it seems like they recently decided that their existing product just happens to already be the perfect product for the office and rebranded it. I don't buy this at all, teams don't actually collaborate by sending each other green giraffe stickers.
People who use Slack do.
Slack charges. When is "Work" going to end up like Parse?
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#25Something about this creeps me out.
Next up "Facebook staring at you watching you sleep".
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#26I don't see a clear answer on whether or not Facebook will analyze or use the data in any way. It is said that a company can "control" the data, but I'd like to know how Facebook will handle the data.
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#27I will not use a product supported by advertising for internal communication.
The demographic data they would mine would be invaluable to them, but for a company would be unconscionable to give to a third party. Especially one so historically lax about privacy.
You can mine my social life all you want, but when it comes to business, get the hell away.
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#28I don't want a social network like Facebook at work. This takes all of the worst parts of Slack and makes them worse.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
why shouldn't this be used ?
Because Facebook has no intention of keeping the service around if it isn't successful. Whereas with Slack, it's actually their business and already proven profitable/successful.
That logic makes zero sense. "Success" and profitability are only states, you aren't guaranteed either forever. Just as Slack took time to establish both — time which Facebook will also need to establish them both for themselves.
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#30I don't really see the need for this, since the things you usually do on Facebook are not the same things you would do at a workplace community.
It's segmented with two accounts. An FB@Work account and your regular FB account.
Basically, everything at FB is run through FB. (e.g. Groups for everything!) Someone decided that because FB loves FB so much, and a billion people use it, others would want to run their business through FB as well. Now that there's post and comment search, it's not useless as a repository of knowledge, but at the same time I have a hard time believing that others will love FB@Work as much as FB loves FB@Work.