Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by darklrd » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
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Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by ckluis » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

I wonder if they might put it on a subdomain. Facebook is blocked at my company. That might make using Facebook@Work a little harder.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by smackfu » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

Has anyone seen a work social network that wasn't a joke? We have one, and the only use is that your director/VP asks their org to follow them, and then posts various strategic stuff they want you to see. There's zero peer-to-peer usage at all.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by jcfrei » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:44 PM UTC

ckluis wrote: post #2

I wonder if they might put it on a subdomain. Facebook is blocked at my company. That might make using Facebook@Work a little harder.

Maybe that's the point. They noticed declining traffic during work hours and try to reestablish their access to bored employees at work by essentially forcing IT admins to unblock the facebook domain.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by binarymax » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:44 PM UTC

I wonder what guarantees on data confidentiality will be offered? Facebook doesn't have a good reputation when it comes to privacy. I do not believe any serious workplace will trust them with handling any company data and IP.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by forgottenpass » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

Isn't Facebook already Facebook for Work? I'm sanitizing my internet presence for employment reasons and their moderation kills anything approaching NSWF so facebook can be wide open on work desktops.

They're not naming any of their hot new collaboration tools, so they're just ripping off google docs then?

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by diverightin63 » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:49 PM UTC

I feel bad for Yammer.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by xedarius » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

I couldn't work out from the article if you could run Facebook on your own servers or not. This will be a massive hurdle to jump if they really want to sell to enterprise.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by patrickk » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

jcfrei wrote: post #4

ckluis wrote: post #2

I wonder if they might put it on a subdomain. Facebook is blocked at my company. That might make using Facebook@Work a little harder.

Maybe that's the point. They noticed declining traffic during work hours and try to reestablish their access to bored employees at work by essentially forcing IT admins to unblock the facebook domain.

Perhaps its simply to get a different revenue stream other than ads. Very vulnerable to adblockers.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by mpeg » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 2:51 PM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #3

Has anyone seen a work social network that wasn't a joke? We have one, and the only use is that your director/VP asks their org to follow them, and then posts various strategic stuff they want you to see. There's zero peer-to-peer usage at all.

Chatter got some use as a proper work social network when I was at Salesforce, currently at another company that also uses chatter and it's exactly as you mention, a barren land with the occasional person tooting their own horn "@VP @CEO @Mom"