Stop viewing Facebook at work says Facebook at work on Facebook at Work Facebook will soon tell its users (sorry, people) to dump its colleagues on the site and interact with them instead on the company's social-networking-for-suits site, Facebook at Work. In the meantime, Facebook is at work on Facebook at Work. Facebook will not be renamed Facebook at Home, but the Mark Zuckerberg-run firm has …
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I'm just waiting for the first time someone posts something to their Facebook @ Work when they really meant to post it to their Facebook and they are fired for it.
OR
The first time someone posts company "secrets" on Facebook when they meant to start a discussion about it on Facebook @ Work.
The possibilities for calamity are endless.
When exactly are people supposed to get any work done with all these communication channels pouring spam at us 24/7?
I check my primary inbox and respond to 2 emails when my mobile beeps (OK, it makes a dialup modem noise but you get the idea) so I read the SMS and am about to pick the landline up to call the messager back when my mobile rings (plays the theme tune from Monty Python...) and it's someone else needing help with something. During the phone call another 10 new emails drop in and I'm conscious that a small queue has formed behind me in the open plan office of people actually wanting to talk to me in person. An hour of "chatting" later I get back to that second email as I hadn't managed to click "send". As soon as it's clicked another email lands informing me someone assigned me a "case" in salesforce.com. It's actually a meeting invite, which I add to my outlook calendar. Then I notice some red "tasks" someone assigned me so I start reading and one of the secretaries hands me a stack of snail mail. I raise my hand to receive said envelopes and the landline rings...
No. I don't want Facebook for work tyvm. I want a little peace and quiet to get some ****** work done!
I'm lucky - my phone rings and I can afford to look at it before getting up to go get a cup of tea in the hope that it's stopped ringing before I get back. At some point I'll have IT disable my voicemail box after I record a greeting that tells people to email me instead. The same for my mobile, if I don't recognise the number then I don't answer the call (family calls come in with a different ring tune).
Yup, sounds like what my status will be on Facebook At Work.
Don't care who says so, I'll never use it. And I'd like to take advantage of the opportunity to state that my professional life is NOT like my personal life and I do not want to mix the two.
If I want to be social with people I see 50 hours per week, I don't need a fucking ad server Big Brother Zuckerstein product to help me.
Lync as a desktop sharing tool as well as IM is great. It will also automatically set your status as away if your calendar shows it as such. Lync is very useful.
Yammer is a different story, working in a multi-national where it has been foisted. It seems that it is popular in some parts of the world where people are all over it with banal blogs Those same people don't understand why those of us in the UK are not interested and have never read their banal blogs. I do think these people are spending too much time writing their Yammer blogs instead of actually being productive.
No one will be able to "dislike" them, eh?
Side benefit for managers: an automatic, algorithmic annual review for everyone?
Side benefit for Zuck: new FB@Home users (soz, people) as employees retire?
I would assume that there will be a like button - and a like-it-even-more button.
Well, I definitely have a strange and very intense sensation in my lower parts when I start thinking about it. Or, bowel movement, as it is called more prosaically. Probably yesterday's curry on it's way out.
but what is the point of FB@W ?
If one wants to converse/share info with a work colleague, whilst at work, one can do that with either email, or meet up at the water/coffee machine or pop to the pub at lunchtime.....one doesn't need an "app" for that.
And who is going to use FB@W when you get home? Surely, by then, you've switched off and will be enjoying some "family time"...and if something is THAT important you'd have a work colleagues mobile number to call or txt, or you can ping them an email. Hell you could even use FB@Home as said work friends/colleagues could be on your FB@Home friends list.
So, unless FB@W offers businesses something that no other software/resource can offer (and irrespective of what money Mr Z can make from this "idea" via advertising), then all I CAN see is that Mr Z is just throwing a lot of money at something that just isn't needed.
Surely, he'd just be better off buying LinkedIn ??
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After all, every CEO knows it's important not to get your products lines intermingled during transit to the customer. I'm sure forcing all the work product through the home interface was screwing up the algorithms that result in cold hard cash from the customers.
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