This sounds nightmarish honestly.
Facebook at Work
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Re: Facebook at Work
#202Any theories on why they're using Wordpress.com VIP for this?
FB currently hosts ~15 sites with WordPress.com VIP
Re: Facebook at Work
#203This 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…
Those posts aren't coming from facebook - they're coming from the people you choose to add as friends. I choose my friends carefully, and my news feed has none of that :)
Re: Facebook at Work
#204We'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…
I'd thought FB for work is at least siloed from your personal FB. You get notifications from the personal account as well? Well now I know why they made it this way, since it'll drive the FB usage - even at work! Disgusting.
> You get notifications from the personal account as well?
No
Re: Facebook at Work
#205I'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…
Upvoted for the positioning part: brand extension is almost always a mistake. In this case maybe they want to leverage the fact that almost everyone has fb, but in the mind of users fb is not associated with "work". And it's likely to hurt their main brand because it will drain more "coolness" out of it.
Or, as is already the case with a lot of us millenials: We have fb. Everyone we know has fb. Everyone we get to know is added to fb. There is no distinction between private life and work life. Fb is where we keep track of who we know. Fb is where we ask around if anyone knows of a company looking for a person. Fb is where we ask around if any person is looking for a company. Fb is where we group text. Fb is where we do all serious social networking.
The first thing that happens when joining a new company is that everyone sends me Fb friend requests.
That said, it looks like Slack is doing a great job of replacing email for in-office communication.
Re: Facebook at Work
#206Relevant piece of trivia: I went to a meetup at Facebook's London offices a few months back and heard a presentation from the FB @ Work lead. This may surprise some but FB @ Work was entirely built by their London team in London. 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…
You make it sound like this was some sort of heroic effort. It is (probably well paid) developers doing their job. That's it. No need for a parade.
Re: Facebook at Work
#207I 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.
"You can mine my social life all you want, but when it comes to business, get the hell away." I like it when people accidentally summarise life in 21st century capitalism on HN
Couldn't help but laugh out loud. Well said!
Re: Facebook at Work
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
As opposed to them being on Google or Microsoft's?
Those companies undergo IT industry standard audits. https://www.microsoft.com/online/legal/v2/en-us/MOS_PTC_Secu... https://www.google.com/work/soc3.html Facebook, on the other hand, is an all-around shitshow.
remember when facebook employees got the master key to all accounts as a perk? Yeah, totally trustworthy...
Re: Facebook at Work
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Upvoted for the positioning part: brand extension is almost always a mistake. In this case maybe they want to leverage the fact that almost everyone has fb, but in the mind of users fb is not associated with "work". And it's likely to hurt their main brand because it will drain more "coolness" out of it.
Or, as is already the case with a lot of us millenials: We have fb. Everyone we know has fb. Everyone we get to know is added to fb. There is no distinction between private life and work life. Fb is where we keep track of who we know. Fb is where we ask around if anyone knows of a company looking for a person. Fb is where we ask around if any person is looking for a company. Fb is where we group text. Fb is where we…
Don't be so sure your experience matches everyone else's. The 'we' you mentioned does not include me.
I will add all my work contacts on LinkedIn but I will only add a few (about 5%) on FB; ones who I socialise with outside of work.
Re: Facebook at Work
#210This 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…
Do you really think people would post the same stuff to their 'work feed' as their 'personal feed'? Actually you know what.. probably
I didn't even realize it happening, but that's exactly what my LinkedIn feed has become, complete with memes and motivational JPGs.