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Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by Aco- »

j2bax wrote: post #86
ohnomrbill wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try very hard to separate my work life and personal life. This would make me do one of two things: - Stop using facebook for personal purposes and treat it like a more featureful LinkedIn - Quit my job and find another which doesn't require me to give work information to a company which has a trove of my personal information

This is a completely separate account not tied to your personal Facebook account.

if you think for one minute that FB isn't going to be able to link this back to your personal FB account you're a fool

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by j2bax »

Aco- wrote: post #91
j2bax wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a completely separate account not tied to your personal Facebook account.

if you think for one minute that FB isn't going to be able to link this back to your personal FB account you're a fool

While I appreciate being informed what does or doesn't make me a fool by internet strangers, I don't think that was the concern of the parent post. I believe their concern was that they would be seeing work related content popup while they were on their personal Facebook account thus mixing work/personal life.

I think the point of making it a completely separate account is to ease companies fears of users getting sucked into the endless scroll vortex while at work, and I would doubt they'd be jumping you back and forth and showing you notifications from personal/work Facebook when logged into either service. It would also be an obvious security/privacy issue if project info was popping up in users personal notifications.

Whether or not they are going to link the accounts on the backend for their data mining purposes, was not the intent or subject I was addressing/speculating about.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by Spooky23 »

wodenokoto wrote: post #59
optim_cynic33 wrote: post #44

(Throwaway because this includes inside baseball theory and it's not appropriate to comment as my usual self) The technical document https://developers.facebook.com/docs/workplace/account-manag... includes an example to create a new user via an authenticated POST request. Previously facebook had a party line that each human had at most one facebook account (which was in contrast to its competitors where some humans h…

I think each workplace by facebook will have seperate users and separate domains, so the user-count of facebook-proper will not be affected by companies have bulk access to account creation. This should also keep facebook proper blockable. I didn't catch the baseball theory part of your comment advertised in the beginning.

Microsoft said that too about O365, and its true -- for Exchange and Outlook only.

The reality is that to access all O365 products, you need to have access to CDN domains and live.com authentication infrastructure, and you need to constantly monitor errors in the network because cloud scale services change IPs all of the time.

I'm sure FB will be similar.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by notyourwork »

gjolund wrote: post #63
notyourwork wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your concern. Could you expand here?

Are you serious? Take 5 minutes to think about it and see of you can't come up with a couple reasons.

Yes I am serious. You providing no context isn't helpful either, thanks.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by notyourwork »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #81
EliRivers wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, your competitor, will pay FB for your conversations. I expect we can work out a way to do it that isn't so brazen.

But if that's possible in any way FaceBook and the company paying would be subject to breaking many corporate espionage laws in addition to destroying FaceBook's enterprise business IN ITS ENTIRETY should it be found out. Seems like an insane amount of risk for such a very tiny reward.

This is exactly why I don't see how a company would be concerned. Lots of b2b relationships exist and are based on trust with legal ramifications for when that trust is broken.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by Spooky23 »

mbesto wrote: post #76

What has changed about that market that makes this more appealing to businesses than Yammer? OR what about the product makes it more compelling than Yammer?

From the description, it sounds like Yammer before they grafted SharePoint to it.

I suppose that makes it better than Yammer by default. :)

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by meira »

d33 wrote: post #97
meira wrote: post #46

This is called: despair. Lost of monthly active users, Lost of daily engagement. I bet it'll fail, although everybody automatically think that it Will suceed.

Do you have sources to back this up?

If I had, Nasdaq would crash. And Facebook will do a lot before it happens. But is a economic natural Law: what doesn't grow, shrink. Facebook reached its limits, and it was delayed a lot by Instagram and whatsapp.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by what_ever »

ohnomrbill wrote: post #73
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #25

I don't get the negativity. This is kinda awesome! News feeds will be good to monitor what's going on across many groups / teams, groups can help your team post and communicate across various topics (same with messaging). Honestly the live video streams on demand is kinda huge; this isn't always something easy for companies to do especially large companies but Facebook can pull this off and make it look great for tho…

I try very hard to separate my work life and personal life. This would make me do one of two things: - Stop using facebook for personal purposes and treat it like a more featureful LinkedIn - Quit my job and find another which doesn't require me to give work information to a company which has a trove of my personal information

Are you okay with working at a company using Google Apps for Work/GSuite?

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by pmlnr »

j2bax wrote: post #86
ohnomrbill wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try very hard to separate my work life and personal life. This would make me do one of two things: - Stop using facebook for personal purposes and treat it like a more featureful LinkedIn - Quit my job and find another which doesn't require me to give work information to a company which has a trove of my personal information

This is a completely separate account not tied to your personal Facebook account.

Lol. The moment you add a picture, it's tied together.
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