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Status update: Work is soooo boring
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
July 20, 2009

Awhile back, I wrote a blog about a young woman who got fired from her job for writing she was bored at work on her Facebook page.

And she's not the only one. The discussion over social networking (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace) and it's place in the workplace is still raging, especially since Twitter and Facebook just seem to get more popular. Many people are finding it hard to toe the line between their professional self and their private lives and social networking is only blurring the line.

As such, I'm doing a pro/con story about social networking in the workplace and I want your opinion. Can sites such as Myspace, Facebook and Twitter be good for a company or should it be banned? How can it help or hurt a business?

I'm looking for business owners and bosses to get their perspective and also employees and what they think.

You can call me at 361-580-6514 or email me at abrandon@vicad.com.

Thanks.

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  • Riverboat Riverboat Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    My advice is to write down your thoughts on a piece of paper while you're on the clock. After you enter your castle and pull up the drawbridge and release the sharks and piranhas in the moat and deploy the archers on the parapet, THEN shoot your mouth off in the blogosphere.

    July 23, 2009 at 1:27 a.m.

  • joseexist joseexist Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    As long as production is not compromised social networking while at work is benificial in that it provides a method of distraction from the job that gives a worker the chance to recharge their mental faculties. When networkers get back to work they usually are more productive than those who do not twit or blog.(This was the conclusion of a study done about twitter I think.)

    July 21, 2009 at 10:31 a.m.

  • OLDRUSTYBUCKET1 OLDRUSTYBUCKET1 Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    APRILL: Unless negotiated otherwise, every second of an employee's work day belongs to the boss/company. If such shenanigans was negatively impacting production, one can check twitter/tweet/facebook postings to expose the TWITS. On my last job one idiot logged something like 60 hours on a company cell phone one month. "You didn't tell me I couldn't."

    July 20, 2009 at 11:14 p.m.