Facebook Is Preparing to Launch Facebook at Work

WalterSear · 10 years ago

But I already use facebook when I'm supposed to be working.

cpeterso · 10 years ago

I'm surprised Twitter has not made a move into the enterprise space.

I don't use Facebook, but Facebook at Work sounds interesting from what I've heard from Facebook employees using it. You can follow people, teams, and interest groups which would be useful for matrix organizations that have fluid or cross-functional teams.

kbanman · 10 years ago

We have been using this at Hootsuite, and it's been a really smooth experience, especially when compared to Yammer.

sa2015 · 10 years ago

wonder if this will flop like yammer. wonder how many firewalls will need to be updated to allow facebook links.

tmail21 · 10 years ago

I think there are two distinct questions here, viz. is Social useful at Work and will Facebook at Work "fail" like Yammer or crush/be-crushed-by Slack et al. The reason these are distinct questions is that Facebook at Work is likely to be much more than just a Social Network and intrude heavily into Slack-like territory with Group chats etc. We wrote an article on this recently that explores this issue: https://tmail21.com/blog/is-social-the-future-of-work/

OJFord · 10 years ago

Has Yammer flopped?

I mean, I don't think it's great, and I pretty much avoid it. But people (or - more importantly? - companies) seem to use it..

takeda · 10 years ago

> I mean, I don't think it's great, and I pretty much avoid it.

If you have that opinion after trying to use it, chances are that a lot of other people think the same.

My company also supposedly uses Yammer, yet no one really seems to use it.

theklub · 10 years ago

Yeah, last thing I want on my network is Facebook and all the shit that comes from it.

ProAm · 10 years ago

LinkedIn will be thrilled about this. Im glad someone is finally going to challenge the LinkedIn-space but Im bummed it's Facebook that is doing it.

azurezyq · 10 years ago

It's an intra-company communication solution, a not professional network. I think you should compare it w/ slack/yammer/google apps/office suite.

What is linkedin-space?

dev1n · 10 years ago

what is linkedin-space?

It's kind of like the nullspace of a linear combination of social networking platforms. I think ;)

ProAm · 10 years ago

I think they would expand it to be a network of work colleagues very quickly though. It will start like Yammer and slowly roll into inter-company/inter-industry networking tool. If I were LinkedIn, Id be worried.

OJFord · 10 years ago

    > What is linkedin-space?

I read that as "the space (as in market) in which LinkedIn operates"

quattrofan · 10 years ago

The last thing on earth I would use for business

noir-york · 10 years ago

Any Facebook for Work users here who we can reach out to? We build a cloud-based security solution and would love to get access to FbW so that we can make any necessary updates in time for launch. Any help / intros really appreciated!

uxcn · 10 years ago

Facebook might be able to give you more info if you contact them directly.

sytse · 10 years ago

Slack (and on-premises open source variants like Rocket Chat and Mattermost) are much better for this kind of communication I think. I think chat will eat Facebook at Work, Yammer and all the other tools.