I agree everytime I turn arround thier privacy policy changes again. it is bad business and worth considering stopping the use of FB. I would never allow my employer access or use fb as a professional tool. Linkedin & twitter are here for a reason
Facebook's infrastructure is second to none (and having worked with a competitor, i can say that with confidence). They do some very interesting things in the background while people are posting silly pictures on each other's pages, and that would make a stunningly effective platform for all manner of software magic. The question has to be whether they can leverage their expertise into something useful to business (my current client blocks all social media due to security concerns). If they find a way, it could be the ultimate 'killer app.' Of course, if the bad guys ever manage to get in the door, the results could be disastrous for all concerned.
Maybe it's just me, because I'm a freelancer and don't work for any one monolithic employer, but there's no way that I'm giving an employer access to or control over my Facebook information. I've never trusted FB, and they are constantly changing things in ways that seem to subvert my attempts to keep things private.
As an individual, as a professional and worker, in some sense Facebook gives me greater control over the way I represent myself to the world, to my organizations.
For a person, what greater freedom is there to be able to say to a bank -- no, I am not a record in your homogeneous relational database...I am a complex admixture of text, relationsions, apps that I use even. My data is XML and English not SQL.
That is the real breakthrough. Facebook more closely resembles the relationships we have between living human beings. It's less of an abstraction of the sort that occurs when you siphon a few measley attributes off into a SQL record!
jabailo - Companies need to be concerned with Facebook not just having, but also controlling that much information on their employees, customers, and partners.
Ok, so here we have Windows 8 -- and it's turned itself from just an app launcher into a sort of .NET assembly where all the low level functions are now accessible at the Windows developer level.
Then you get this increasing integration -- at the desktop level -- with a Facebook service providing identity for 1 billion people...and those 1 billion are the ones who buy stuff.
So, you see that with Windows 8 you can begin to get back beyond browsers to rich desktop applications, web enabled, membership connected, real time, ...
You could almost run a whole week of IE articles just on Facebook and it's potential impact on the way we do business information systems.
I certainly don't have a robust answer for all of it -- but I do think this...Facebook is the elephant in the room for many of the issues we are discussing...and it won't change any time soon!
Mitch - good question. My guess is that most people will already have their own mobile phones for their personal use, and soon will, and that most would prefer to conduct their business on the same phone. So I'd say that, yes, corporations could require their employees to provide their own phones. Tablets may be another matter, at least until they completely take over the PC world. I think we're all going to have our own personal technology - it will be necessary for our daily lives and we will also use it for work.
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