Facebook targets workplaces with new professional networking site
This article is about Facebook creating a new social networking site for workplaces called 'Facebook at work' for business people to communicate on here using chats and sharing documents.
- The new site is expected to look very similar to Facebook’s interface, with its newsfeed and groups, but allow users to keep their personal information entirely separate from their work profile.
- For the venture to prove a success, Facebook would have to win the trust of corporate IT chiefs and guarantee that information conveyed could not fall into the hands of rival businesses.
- Thousands of companies use email, chat and collaboration tools offered by the likes of Google and Microsoft, while LinkedIn has become the most widely used site for professional networking.
- Some have suggested that the drive is as much about creating more potential Facebook users as getting people in the developing world online.
- Google is also working on a project to provide internet access using high altitude balloons, while Facebook is also experimenting with solar-powered drones at would fly at 20,000 metres.
In my opinion I would say this is a clever idea as employees can get involved with social networking in a different way other than sending emails. This could become a development to remember as it is innovated to move along with the times as in the future social network will become even more dominant in world and used in a broader way.
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