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I have a nephew who works for Menard's. Facebook gives Menard's specific privileges and tools to monitor the accounts of their employees. One of their rules i
by Vivtek 16y ago
I have a nephew who works for Menard's. Facebook gives Menard's specific privileges and tools to monitor the accounts of their employees. One of their rules is that management and floor employees can't socialize. At all. Well, my nephew, a floor employee has a friend who is now a manager. By which I mean that the friendship predates the employment.
They're smart enough never to post anything on Facebook about anything they do together, but a few months ago they went out for an evening on their motorcycles, and the friend and my niece posted about riding bikes on the same day.
Management talked to both of them the next morning, and pointedly threatened my nephew's job.
That is the world Mark Zuckerberg is proud of. That is the world he considers to have integrity. Instead of decrying the spread of petty fascism, he figures he can get rich selling the tools. The man is a sociopath.
- awakeasleep 16y agoDo you have any more information or links referring to the Facebook-Menard's deal? That sounds scandalously interesting, but I can't find anything discussing it.
- Vivtek 16y agoA careful read of their terms of service reveals no such language - so perhaps (gasp!) my nephew is going a little conspiracy-theory on me on that point. But while I wipe this egg off my face, allow me to reassert that Menard's definitely does do this monitoring, even if Facebook doesn't specifically enable it - and that's the basic problem with this notion of abolishment of all anonymity. I made some comments last week pooh-poohing the "single point of failure" aspect of Facebook identity management - but Zuckerberg's ambition certainly seems to be the single point of failure of society as a whole.