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I worked on Workplace at Facebook. It's super-cheap at $1-3 per MAU. If they like it, why not pay for it. OTOH if I were FB I'd give it to CERN for free.
by Maro 7y ago
I worked on Workplace at Facebook. It's super-cheap at $1-3 per MAU. If they like it, why not pay for it. OTOH if I were FB I'd give it to CERN for free.
- swarnie_ 7y agoI'm forced to use Workplace in my company and i absolutely hate it. After 15 years of employers trying to keep employees off social media they're now trying to shove it back in again. While joined to around 100 groups in my global organisation the wall/feed thing becomes a very poor way to deliver technical information. Its intermingled with personal messages or a reminder about Jason from accounts upcoming birthday drinks. Everyday i'm reminded why i left Facebook in 2012 and never looked back.
- gmueckl 7y agoThis sounds like a terribly mismanaged Workplace instance to me. Why should anyone be joined to 100 groups? That's a red flag right there. And if you can't move personal stuff off of Workplace, create separate groups for that that can be muted or left etc. This noisy personal stuff can easily exist in public groups that can be looked into by anyone if something comes up.
- redis_mlc 7y ago"You're holding it wrong."
- MuricaFYeah 7y agoOf course you'd say that facebook guy, but facebook has no place running anything from CERN or any other scientific org for that matter. CERN shouldn't even have considered it in the first place. Might as well just install a fibre optic cable straight into Fort Meade and Langley to cut off the middle man. Also, I'm pretty sure tomorrow or next week's news will be that facebook will in fact supply this tool out to CERN for free and cite some bs like "to give back" or "to support the scientific community". I hope I'm wrong but let's see how it goes. Will we ever learn?