>> Now often when I talk to a CO. and I mention social networking, they think MySpace, or Facebook, does it have any application in your company?
>> Well, MySpace is an example of social networking outside of work. But, if you think about it, email is a very inefficient, but very predominant social networking.
>> Very well said. Inefficient, Predominant.
>> If you look at the types of messages that are exchanged in email, they're as likely to be social as they are business in any work place. So, I, I think to, to try to pretend that social networking isn't a part of the, the workforce's basic needs, is to completely ignore the nature of human beings. As we move into more and more situations where we're allowing people to work at home, and they lose the day-to-day face-to-face interaction, we also see through surveys that they tend to become more dissatisfied with that job after a year or so, because of the lack of social contact. The ones who stay in the job, find ways to replace it with electronic social networking. So to that end, we're as I said, we're investing in collaboration tools and bandwidth to be able to support video networking and network tools with in our infrastructure that would allow people to communicate more freely.
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