Comments on: Banning Facebook sends the wrong message

By: BDO chooses blogging partner to head up international network / Neil McIntyre

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:32:08 +0000

[…] while at work, and being against the trend to ban it in workplaces, was quoted by yours truly in a post I made a short while ago that caused partners in my office sit up and take […]

By: Krupo

Krupo — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:56:47 +0000

Haven’t seriously gone into adding clients. Perhaps I will. It all feels so cyber-stalkerish. Especially with their formal “I’d like to add you to my LinkedIn network” default introductory messages. Ick.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:48:09 +0000

I think what appeals to me about LinkedIn is that I’ve been reasonably successful finding clients on it, compared to Facebook. It’s a good way to make a connection professionally.

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:15:34 +0000

Just change your e-mail notification settings to kill the e-mails.

I had a discussion with a friend yesterday about PS3 controls. He argued that I just need to get used to the interface.

No, I believe I can quickly determine if an interface is well designed or poorly designed.

Gamepads for first-person shooter games are a bad idea. And this kludgy LI thing doesn’t appeal to me either. Oh look, contacts from my company… who I’ve never heard of. The site really irritates me in an irrational manner.

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:01:14 +0000

I like LinkedIn more and more as Facebook gets busier and more useless for accomplishing tasks. Plus, I don’t appreciate receiving email from Applications I don’t have installed. That’s just spam. LinkedIn has started to really grow on me. I like the idea of friend segregation though.

By: Krupo

Krupo — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:56:43 +0000

Neil's very much into sports, so the lame troll attack, while I nice sign of Neil's growing readership, is nevertheless ... just a lame troll attack. Reminds me of the movie Clerks 2 where someone sits at a computer all day at work attacking blogs. Somehow, I doubt people from Neil's office are here, it'll actually push up the level of discourse. Or increase traffic a bit, anyway. On another serious note, informed readers know that fcbk is finally responding to the fact that your colleague at work is not necessarily in the same circle as your friends from university and they're developing a "groups' feature that'll introduce 'friend segregation' to you can customize who-sees-what at a more granular level than the current full/limited/none access model. That should no doubt help the rah-rah, business crowd. And after spending a few minutes on LinkedIn this afternoon, I don't see LI going anywhere - it must be one of the cruftiest interfaces I've seen around.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:24:21 +0000

Phil, I hope your comment doesn’t indicate the level of discourse we can expect on this blog now that everyone in my office knows about it! For those of you who don’t work with me, this blog was mentioned at BDO Dunwoody’s AGM as a shining example the direction the firm wants to go in terms of new media marketing efforts!

It doesn’t matter why employees want to use Facebook, banning a website that doesn’t tie up resources (i.e. YouTube) sends the message that employees are not trusted by managers to do the right thing.

Phil and I and some others from our office also won the rec league slo-pitch championship this past Thursday, so that’s probably where the “play some sports and stop wasting time on the computer” remark makes the least sense.

Phil, quit hating on Facebook and embrace social networking!

(Phil’s comment is presented in its unedited form. Both his and my comments do not reflect the opinions of our employer.)

By: Phil Daley

Phil Daley — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:58:42 +0000

You are all a bunch of clowns. You make great arguments as to why you shouldn’t ban facebook or instant messaging… but you don’t argue why they should allow it. The only reason employees want to use facebook is for non-work related purposes. And don’t try to argue that facebook is about professional networking, Neil posts pictures of himself topless with a lampshade on his head, if anything facebook and instant messaging is detrimental to our professional careers. So keep arguing about how your ‘rights’ are being violated, but the truth is facebook is non-work related. So try focusing on why you should have it (as opposed to why its bad to ban things at work) and you’ll realize how silly you sound.

Go play some sports and stop wasting time on the computer.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:36:35 +0000

I agree with you all (because you all agreed with me first).

Chris — Hope you can blog more frequently in the future! It’s been few and far between from you lately.

By: Christopher Silvey

Christopher Silvey — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:36:56 +0000

The banning of IM is also baffling to me. If you think someone uses it too much for goofing off…then fire them. Otherwise, let me organize my life as I see best and you will have a happy employee that uses technology efficiently to goof-off and to perform my job.