From Pine View Farm

Facebook Frolics, Nyarlathotep* Dept. 1

The answer is always more technology.

Richard Parker surveys the morass of spam, phishing, and general crap that fills our email boxes and then considers one proposed solution:

IdeaPlane (a British outfit–ed.) advocates that companies ditch e-mail. Amen. But in favor of what exactly? A phone call? A meeting? A Star Trek communicator? No. Gartner, the IT research firm, predicts that in 2014 companies will substitute enterprise social networking for e-mail in 20 percent of their communications. In other words, Facebook for business.

Awesome. I’m sure that will work.

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*The creeping, crawling chaos.

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  1. George Smith

    August 5, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    Well, Facebook does optimize itself for bootlickers, shoeshiners and apple polishers so superficially it would be a good match for lousy companies. Since it rapidly hides all its message and comment trees, it would also serve as a great place for meetings where no one really wants to hear or read what the others are saying, just to be the last lickspittle to say something the boss will see and to get points on.