February 5, 2009
Happy Birthday to Facebook!
Yes, the scourge of workplace productivity was five years old yesterday. What did the UK's office workers do before Facebook existed? Some work, probably.
All manner of surveys in the past couple of years have shown that workers waste hours of their employers' time every week on Facebook, sending out friend requests, inviting people to take part in ridiculous games and uploading photos of themselves.
Facebook was set up by Harvard college geek Mark Zuckerberg - so HR teams have him to blame for their organisation's plummeting productivity. When Zuckerberg formally filed papers setting up Facebook, he listed his job description as "Founder, Master and Commander Enemy of the State." That probably gives you some idea as to the type of guy he is.
And if Facebook loses its appeal, there are plenty of social networking tools to occupy the working day: MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Wikis, Second Life, YouTube.
The BBC has posted a blog asking users to leave their reasons why they haven't joined Facebook. Guru's favourite is:
"I've never joined Facebook because my face is too scary. Instead I've joined Arsebook, a much better site."
Guru is now off to update his status to 'sticking my head in a gas oven'.
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Comments (1)
Facebook drives me mad and most of my clients as well. Some of them have asked us to include in our interviews the question "do you have a facebook account?" If no, they have the job straight away!
Posted by chef jobs | February 6, 2009 1:30 PM
Posted on February 6, 2009 13:30