Facebook's 'Workplace' collaboration dogfood is now on your menu

let's hope

this crap will not be forced onto outsiders (just because they held a job at "progressive" employer).

not to my benefit

And probably not yours either.

I foresee tears at bedtime.

I suspect you won't even make it to bedtime before your world changing idea has winged its way to a better paying competitor...

I see this more in the general context of making the web somehow attractive for confidential work - I guess the hope of Google, Facebook and all the US snoopers is that we will eventually just forget that it's unsecure as heck. Not going to happen, but it is admittedly a nice try.

Oh dear ....

Given the increased proliferation of 'Management by Bandwagon' at my place of work (the C-crowd jump on a bandwagon and then the proles get flattened by it) I can see damagement being all over this like flies on a turd.

It will not end well ...

Really?

You, Facebook, want me to put all of my business's internal conversations on one of your servers somewhere so you can snoop on private, and most likely confidential and sensitive, conversations?

I have a finger, it's the middle one, it likes swivellers...

To be fair, it doesn't sound like anything the standard Skype/Outlook/OneDrive/SharePoint solution that is pretty widespread doesn't already do? A quick look round Outlook and I can create groups, share crap with them, message all of them, video chat with them.

MS, if you're reading, you now owe me a tenner!

..."probably know Facebook's interface pretty well, making Workplace a shallow-and-short-learning-curve way to introduce collaboration tools."

Until it changes again. Just like every other web-based... I mean, cloud-based interface out there.

Fortunately, that also applies to the price. And with luck, they'll mutate it a few times and then close the whole project, just like 95% of the rest of this sort of thing.

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