Social Media at Work

Social networking on the Web is almost exclusively an interest of young people.
However, with the growth of popularity, such social networking sites as Facebook
are more and more often of interest of adults to such extend that they are present
in working environment.
Since the main purpose of social networking sites is to socialize, many people
spend significant amount of their working hours on talking with facebook friends and
at the same time they deteriorate their productivity.
However, there are some other concerns regarding social networking sites, which were
mentioned by Anthony Balderrama, and they are as follows:

• 17 percent of companies report that they have investigated the posting of confidential, sensitive or private information to a social network, such as Facebook or LinkedIn.
• 10 percent have taken disciplinary actions against an employee who violated social networking policies in the past 12 months.
• 8 percent terminated an employee for violating a social networking policy.
• 45 percent are highly concerned about unauthorized information being posted on social networks.

It is not only that the employees waste their time, for which they are paid, but also
they may cause a potential danger to a company.

So, if we do not want to make our employers angry, we should limit our usage of Facebook...otherwise, they are gonna put a ban on this website, and for sure, we dont want it ;)