Banning facebook could lead to unnecessary deaths
Summary: Via David Stephenson, I found this article about Toronto public health officials using Facebook to find a woman who had been possibly infected with rabies. The ironic part is that the City of Toronto bans the use of Facebook, so she had to get special permission to use it.
Via David Stephenson, I found this article about Toronto public health officials using Facebook to find a woman who had been possibly infected with rabies. The ironic part is that the City of Toronto bans the use of Facebook, so she had to get special permission to use it.
When are enterprises going to learn that these sorts of bans are counter productive? People use tools for lots of different reasons. Trying to control people using IT leads to bad feelings, and as this article infers, maybe even death. You get people to do the right thing with good leadership and proper management, not firewalls.
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I don't see how FaceBook is work related
In a perfect world we'd not have block any sites because users wouldn't waste tons of time on non productive things like Facebook. If you're job is to enter data and you are using facebook you aren't productive. But if a worker was able to just use facebook for work tasks only we'd allow I'm sure only thing is management doesn't find workers using it correctly.
Studies have said that 80% of corporate internet traffic is no work related. Can better management fix that? I don't think so. Sound like better management in this case is manager watching you every minute. Better to just not allow it and let the employee work.
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