Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

Post by spacemanmatt » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 1:45 AM UTC

Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd wrote: post #80

berberous wrote: post #50

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Well, what's your threat model that you are worried about? I would imagine all of these companies have much better security and reliability than most internal IT departments. And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes. The NSA can get what they want anyways. The one big issue is subpoena's / third party doctrine issues, but I imagine for many companies that's a decent tradeoff for the reduced IT overhead /…

> And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes. Well, Google does read your email to show you better ads. But they never made a secret of that. > The NSA can get what they want anyways. If they really want to, yes. That doesn't mean one shouldn't try to make it as hard as possible for them. They won't bother if their cost/benefit analysis says you aren't worth it to get out the big guns. (Reliable 0 days aren…

Post by wodenokoto » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 4:45 AM UTC

epmatsw wrote: post #108

ThomPete wrote: post #69

"Lars Rasmussen, the engineering director at Facebook who is heading up the project, had in his past once headed up one of the failed efforts at an enterprise social network, Google Wave." Lars Rasmussen was also the guy behind google maps. Seems a little unfair to set it up like the above.

Was Wave even a social network? I vaguely remember it being more like a real-time Google Docs before Google Docs went realtime.

Post by daedecai » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 6:28 AM UTC

bduerst wrote: post #133

MadManE wrote: post #33

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I think this is because of the inherent inequality that exists at work. In a typical social network, everyone is essentially "equal" when it comes to who you know and interact with. At work, you necessarily are very closely involved with people who hold significant authority over you. Because of this, you have to act incredibly more guarded at work and on its related networks.

That's definitely a big part of it. For a social network to have value, you need users who are compelled to frequently submit content. By adding a power structure, users have to evaluate their decisions, which can generate anxiety or extra work, leading to a drop off in contribution rate. It's one of the reasons teenagers ditched Facebook once their parents joined.