The issue of whether to allow employees access to social-media apps, Facebook in particular, is a growing concern in many companies. Bandwidth costs are soaring, and some people think it’s affecting productivity. As someone quipped on the Nomadic Marketing course “Is it Social-Networking, or Social-NOTworking”!?
Of course, the people inside these companies probably don’t appreciate their access to these sites being curtailed. I, for one, think these things enhance my productivity. But I’m obviously a bit strange.
Of course, someone has created a support group for these people, on Facebook, ironically.
The group, called “I hate IT departments who block MSN, MySpace & Facebook” could be big, but only if it’s target membership can actually access it!
Anyway, some interesting commentary is coming from the group:
We have found a way to access the book at work – hee hee ….. www.logmein.com… basically download the free software to your pc at home – leave it running while at work – and you can access your pc from work and facebook ALL DAY …. WICKED!!!
An IT guy had this to say:
We (The IT Guy) is not the enemy we do as we are told and what security procedures we have to follow… But what the boss doesn’t know wont hurt him!
And:
Make friends with the IT guys they have basically your office world at their finger tips…
Where there’s a need, there’s a Facebook group. What are your thoughts on this?
There’s usually about 20% of people on the list for any 
