Employers Block Your Social Network
My friend Tim Inkpen sent me this article:
Web networking boom blasts into the workplace
The article is about FaceBook and MySpace and it also talks about the fact that many employers block people from certain aspects of the Internet such as email and FaceBook.
Personally I believe that this is generally bad for professionals who use their social networks to assist with problem solving and to discover information. I’ve been on contract sites where they block Internet access and it interfered with my ability to research.
On the other hand, it’s hard to stomach the idea that the civil service is spending their day cruising FaceBook or dating sites and their salaries come from public money. So I can see why they block many people.
Darcy