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Because having all your work related communication on Facebook's servers is certainly something you want as a company.
As opposed to them being on Google or Microsoft's?
Facebook, on the other hand, is an all-around shitshow.
I have been trying "Facebook at Work" at work. As we already had a Facebook group for the company it made sense. This is not a tool to compete with LinkedIn. It is a tool that competes with e-mail/mail lists. Somethings now make much more sense. From a security point of view, in a company over one thousand employees, it is easier to add or remove employees as they are hired or they left the company. Also it is easier…
So now the idea is to do your sensitive internal communications via facebook?
The most interesting thing is this fb site was 'Powered by WordPress.com VIP', LMAO
I 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.
It can be interesting to share some technical news or to organize social events (pizza day for the office, hiking week-end). It can be a nice additional source of revenue for Facebook.
I've seen a couple of the "let's bring social networks to the workplace" products and quite frankly none have impressed me so far. The real problem is not providing great technology but actually getting people in corporate environments to use it in a meaningful way. These projects usually end in the same manner...network is rolled out, used for a couple of weeks and fades into obscurity rarely used (and often leaving…
Slack's been incredibly successful of late. You might not think of it as a 'social network', but it does most of what Facebook at Work is advertising itself as.
Slack is not positioned as a social network but as a productivity and collaboration tool, a role it fulfils really well.
If I had to choose I would pick Slack over Facebook at Work any day of the week.
This ignores mountains of evidence that shows realtime, synchronous communication makes you less productive due to reducing (or eliminating) your ability to focus.
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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.
As you can imagine, they had to touch just about every part of the Facebook code base to make it happen. They still managed to pull it off despite being a "remote" team and unknown entity at first. Great to see some major engineering projects being owned here in the UK.