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Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by melted »

morgante wrote: post #123
melted wrote: post #115

This ignores mountains of evidence that shows realtime, synchronous communication makes you less productive due to reducing (or eliminating) your ability to focus.

It seems to be built primarily around asynchronous communication, not synchronous.

It's only asynchronous is you have willpower, which is finite and easily exhausted, and if there's no expectation of realtime response on the other end, which there nearly always is these days. Whoever comes out with a viable system that is explicitly async (like mailman, or a good secretary) will really benefit humanity.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by kaushikt »

We've used "Facebook for Work" at work. It is highly distracting in IMO.

One of the best productivity hacks is to never log into Facebook or any social accounts when at work. Now, we are working on it which keeps sending you notifications all day long and especially over the weekend.

You like or comment saying - "Awesome, well deserved." The 100 people are going to do the same too. It's super annoying.

This and the fact that you move on to your feed and then shitty videos, pics, buzzfeed and boom ! your whole afternoon is gone !

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by rebootthesystem »

This, good or bad, suffers from exactly the same problem other large internet companies "feature": What i like to call "Customer-No-Service".

This is a feature whereby they get you to rely on their platform for various services and, when you need support, well, there ain't none. No email, phone, fax, telegram, hell not even smoke signals.

And, of course, the added bonus is the traditionally unannounced account shutdown or suspension for no apparent fucking reason at all or some bullshit unpublished reason. What's best is that these are often followed by cryptic emails informing you of the account suspension. To make things even better, these emails are crafted to actually provide negative information and send you to the imsane asylum if you dare try to make any sense out of them. And, of course, no recourse whatsoever.

Yeah, no, thanks. I like to sleep at night.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by melted »

afarrell wrote: post #128
melted wrote: post #115

This ignores mountains of evidence that shows realtime, synchronous communication makes you less productive due to reducing (or eliminating) your ability to focus.

I actively block Facebook at work with /etc/hosts and I would continue to do so if my workplace installed this.

And so do I, along with Reddit and a few other sites. Should probably add HN to the list as well.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by nocman »

kaushikt wrote: post #152

We've used "Facebook for Work" at work. It is highly distracting in IMO. One of the best productivity hacks is to never log into Facebook or any social accounts when at work. Now, we are working on it which keeps sending you notifications all day long and especially over the weekend. You like or comment saying - "Awesome, well deserved." The 100 people are going to do the same too. It's super annoying. This and the f…

Personally, I would say that "One of the best productivity hacks is to never log into Facebook" -- EVER!

:-D

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by morgante »

melted wrote: post #151
morgante wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to be built primarily around asynchronous communication, not synchronous.

It's only asynchronous is you have willpower, which is finite and easily exhausted, and if there's no expectation of realtime response on the other end, which there nearly always is these days. Whoever comes out with a viable system that is explicitly async (like mailman, or a good secretary) will really benefit humanity.

It's like normal Facebook, which I don't think even the biggest of addicts treat as a synchronous system. The entire structure of the application is for you to post and consume updates at different times.

You're going to have a hard time convincing me that Facebook is synchronous when the entire power of News Feed (and what makes Facebook so much more powerful than Facebook) is its ability to keep you updated without requiring constant real-time attention.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by r00fus »

sk5t wrote: post #116
droopybuns wrote: post #108

This is a product I would actively shun. For better of worse, my prejudice of facebook is that it is an outstanding source of the following types of content: Humblebrag b.s. instagram photos passive aggressive shitposting about politics I can use social networks at work- but if they actually brought facebook in and demanded that we used it, I might consider quitting. I'd probably write a python script to repost rando…

Suppose you had to choose between Facebook and Sharepoint? Or maybe a really field-besotted Jira.

Problem is in any large organization the real (and inevitable) choice is "all of the above"

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

The only way to win is not to play the game.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by r00fus »

spdustin wrote: post #88
rgovind wrote: post #75

What I really want is a "linkedin at work" kind of product. In large cross functional organziations, it is often not easy to find who is the right person to talk to. For example, in a ecommerce firm, if you item description is wrong, you do not necessarily know whom to contact. I would like a product, internal to a company, where people write about all things they work on, in linkedin style summaries. Hopefully, this…

SharePoint 2010/2013/Online do this, for those corporations who are immersed in the Microsoft ecosystem. If you have SharePoint now and you're not getting that benefit, the people who deployed it neglected to plan, and likely didn't involve mid-level management in a governance and architecture review process.

Feature uptake is a very common challenge with enterprise software. Doubly so for on-premise software where IT has to manage OS/app server/etc dependencies.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by throwawayimmi »

jtietema wrote: post #147
spdustin wrote: post #95

So... Yammer? FB Work: Groups help you make decisions and keep your team on the same page. Yammer: Organize all your team communication in one place with Yammer Groups. Create a single destination for your messages, files, and updates, where everyone has a view of what's going on without all the usual back-and-forth. FB Work: Get through to the people you need right away with Work Chat. Yammer: Spend less time crafti…

I have tried to use Yammer at work, but found the apps and web interface quite poor. It didn't seem reconnect properly after being offline, mobile app didn't always notify me, also the chatwindows on the webclient where quite annoying to use.

They've made some recent changes to the product and are positioning the product to be more of an email competitor. I have most of these problems with Yammer but I feel like they're moving in the right directions and are actually addressing some of these problems you mentioned above.

DISCLAIMER: Friends with a Yammer enployee

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