What’s Facebook?

Primarily, it’s an approval-seeking mechanism for attention whores…

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Primarily, it’s an approval-seeking mechanism for attention whores…

Or a handy way to share family photos and news with your parents when you and all your siblings live abroad?

Or a handy way to share family photos and news with your parents when you and all your siblings live abroad?

Ok. Who let the guy with the well reasoned argument in here?

Well?

Sorry 😳

Primarily, it’s an approval-seeking mechanism for attention whores…

That sounds like the kind of comment from someone who’d say that talking aloud is attention-seeking 🙄

Umm .. they provide a given service at a given price which you accepted.

My imaginary contract must be different to yours then.

My imaginary contract must be different to yours then.

That’s the problem with imaginary contracts – no f***ing consistency.

Or a handy way to share family photos and news with your parents when you and all your siblings live abroad?

Dammit. Stop showing up my irrational hatred of FaecesBook as idiotic.

My wife uses it obsessively – she’s Brazilian, so uses it to keep in touch with all her family/friends back home.

Drives me nuts. Seems like she’s checking for updates every 0.5 seconds.

If she were 9 this would be fine, but she’s a grown woman so should use grown-up things like e-mail and skype.

That sounds like the kind of comment from someone who’d say that talking aloud is attention-seeking

Sometimes it is …

she’s a grown woman so should use grown-up things like e-mail and skype

.. and STW?

Sometimes it isn’t 😉

.. and STW?

I haven’t grown up

What’s Facebook?
Primarily, it’s an approval-seeking mechanism for attention whores…

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To be fair, it is a narcissist’s dream. As is all social media.
But FB wouldn’t be as popular among the masses if it didn’t have a use for normal people too.

Sorry for the sensible comment. Sometimes I think I should be an accountant 😉

Girl at work posts everything on facebook, shit photo’s from a night out in the local Yates’s, update that she has just made a sandwich , update that her daughter just did her homework , photo’s of what they had for tea, “ooooh look at me” photo’s of their holiday.

One of the most boring f’kin people I have ever met when talking face to face.

Appreciate the people abroad argument but some people live out their (boring) life on facebook.

As for work, banned at ours along with access to red tops, any shopping sites , you tube etc. If you need access to a banned site IT will give it as long as reaon is valid. Wanting to see your mates night out in Yates’s is unlikely to cut it though

My workplace has quite an enlightened attitude to Facebook. It’s available from 12:00 to 2:00 pm, otherwise it’s blocked. Most other sites, like STW are available all the time. I think they take the attitude that you abuse the privileges, they can find out and deal with you appropriately. In the meantime the vast majority of people who are sensible about interwebs usage are also happy.

I’m serving a 9 month written warning for a comment I put on FB whilst staying away in a hotel with my fellow sales colleagues, I used my own phone in my own time and merely commented on having a nice meal, a good laugh with my colleagues who were a good bunch.

Some jealous non dynamic sh*t stirring unambitious office mouth piece (via the help of an FB ‘friend’ :roll:) got wind of it, printed it off and shoved it under the nose of MD. I was roasted and went through a disciplinary and had the company’s ‘Internet acceptable use policy’ shoved up my nose.

I sought legal advice from a well known employment lawyer who practically fell off his chair and his initial reaction was to tell them to go an eff off but in the interests of job preservation I took it on the chin, grovelled and let it run out of steam within a few days.

I think they allow internal people to view anything (but monitored) during lunch breaks) but if I had a company employing 300 people like I work for I’d ban it too. I would also wouldn’t try and control what is said out of hours.

WTF? That’s the most insane post I’ve read for ages.
You seriously need to get a job for a company that isn’t run by total maniacs.

I like that I get on well enough with my Team leader that he sent me a friend request. I’m smart enough that I unfriended him stealthily shortly afterwards.

Social networking at work is a nice to have, like anything else, don’t tear the backside out of it.

‘Boss says no to facebook’

Are you sure?

If you have a business of 7000 employees and your internet pipe “maxes out”, I don’t think you can describe is as “dirty great” by any stretch of the imagination…

Oh I’m sorry, you’re right of course.

Just out of interest then, what would constitute a dirty great internet pipe, in your eyes? I’m just trying to understand what passes for serious connectivity in the world beyond me. Thanks.

Sorry – didn’t think you’d take it personally, samuri – it’s only an internet connection! 😉

And anyway, it’s not the size that matters, it’s what you do with it that counts. What I was trying to say is that something is wrong if you are having 4000 employees causing enough traffic to flow over a reasonable size connection to cause issues. Normally, an organisation of that size would use both caching and traffic shaping to make the most of what they have got. For example, our Cambridge connections to the internet are two peering connections that are only about 20Mb/s each but support all of over site to site and site to use VPN connections and 1000 employees browsing. I don’t think we ever suffer from speed issues. I can usually download large files at around 4MB/s when required.

Hardly maxed out and very modest connections.

Rachel

What I was trying to say is that something is wrong if you are having 4000 employees causing enough traffic to flow over a reasonable size connection to cause issues.

7000 employees and yes you’re right. Something clearly is wrong, too many people are going on facebook. It’s a 200Mb pipe by the way. We’re in the process of upgrading to gig bearers because our business functions are impaired through dinner time. Obviously a significant amount is business traffic but that fact that very specific personal browsing impacts the business is exactly the point and it’s why I get cross about it. A bit of personal browsing is fine, I do it myself but when we have to start spending a lot of money making sure we have enough bandwidth to cope with what is quite clearly non-business traffic then something has to be done and that means we have to start policing people’s internet access.

I know lots of employees think people like me are just jobsworths or power mad as this thread shows but without the controls we put in place it would all go tits up and then everyone would be bitching about how crap the IT people are. I’d ban it myself but I don’t set the policy on that particular subject unfortunately.

Now I’m rolling I’ll also take issue with people who complain about website policing in general. Stop being so narrow minded and try to look at a bigger picture. You access a dodgy site from work, it could be terrorism, kiddie porn, whatever. The police are alerted and track it down to your company. Now what? Do we respond with ‘aah we believe in freedom man’, or does the MD go to prison? Not a hard choice is it?

This is a single example but I can prodcue lots more reasons why companies apply internet access controls. Some of you might not want to understand them but they’re not there to spoil your fun, they’re there to keep your business alive.

I actually use facebook for work, here is one of our foreign artist’s page’s Inna Facebook

As you can imagine this can be extremely useful for our business.

I’m not sure how you can complain if the Boss ban’s it, them’s the rules!

I’ve implemented traffic shaping for Facebook for our company LAN. Was a fun project…

Send all FB traffic down our backup 2.5Mb ADSL line, everything else down our 6.5Mb SDSL pipe.

1. DNS requests *.facebook.com. (got a handful of other domains too)
2. DNS is resolved (either cached or externally).
3. Service monitoring mysql tables picks up IP..
3. IP is added to a routing table automagically if it does not exist already (most likely)

All it takes is one person about 2 mins usage to record all the IPs I need for a week.

Our internet usage policy suggests that any non work related surfing is not permitted, including sending personal emails. This isnt enforced, of course but we do get emails circulated from time to time to remind us that you can be disciplined for doing it.

and regarding posing what you had for lunch – suggest twitter (you can link it to facebook)

facebook, twitter, STW etc etc. All sites devoted to wasting mindless hours on the internet. and I do them all

Now I’m rolling I’ll also take issue with people who complain about website policing in general. Stop being so narrow minded and try to look at a bigger picture. You access a dodgy site from work, it could be terrorism, kiddie porn, whatever. The police are alerted and track it down to your company. Now what? Do we respond with ‘aah we believe in freedom man’, or does the MD go to prison? Not a hard choice is it?

Surely all that need to happen is someone need to look at proxy/router/switch logs to see which ip the request came from and thus identify the relevant employee?

^^ Depends if they have logging enabled – it’s another management headache.

^^^Or The Sun gets a lovely front-page article about a dodgy company where staff watch kiddie porn. At work no FB/STW/Twitter?BeBo etc.