OT. OT. OT. OT. FACEBOOK

Mickey

Friends I will be leaving Facebook as I do not support the Socialist policies directed by Facebook to all who do business with Facebook. I cannot support any business who mandates $15 per hour starting wages and $4000 child care, as well as 15 paid vacation days to other companies doing business with them. Last time I checked this was still the United States of America and I for one do not like what I see at Facebook. 

blasting

I agree with all that, but then I'd agree with anybody who is bailing on facebook or twitter.

Nothing has hurt American business more that Facebook and Twitter.  When did it become ok for an employee to check their Facebook page 20 times a day while being paid by their boss?  No wonder America is losing ground in the world economy.

SmokeyPitt

Celebrating 5 years Facebook free.  Mainly because I don't give a **** how fast you ran your marathon.  

SmokeyPitt

blasting said:

I agree with all that, but then I'd agree with anybody who is bailing on facebook or twitter.

Nothing has hurt American business more that Facebook and Twitter.  When did it become ok for an employee to check their Facebook page 20 times a day while being paid by their boss?  No wonder America is losing ground in the world economy.

@blasting- by that rationale we should probably bail on this forum too . 

Logs off and gets back to work!

cazzy

blasting said:

I agree with all that, but then I'd agree with anybody who is bailing on facebook or twitter.

Nothing has hurt American business more that Facebook and Twitter.  When did it become ok for an employee to check their Facebook page 20 times a day while being paid by their boss?  No wonder America is losing ground in the world economy.

I have very strong feelings about this!!  I'll be right back...I need to go check my FB timeline.   

MelSharples

Is it ok to check eggheadforum 20 times a day?

Acn

Can I ask how is it Socialist for a company to decide how it wants to do business with other companies?  That's pretty much the definition of the free market, yes?

JohnInCarolina

As it turns out, I had a briefing today that has made me seriously question the wisdom of having anything on FB.  I'm not kidding.  

GATraveller

I'm proud to say I have never had a Facebook page.  

Helmet

So, I have two questions for @Mickey
First off, where are you seeing that Facebook is doing that? I haven't seen a single mention of them making this mandatory for people doing business with them. As far as I've seen this is only for their vendors and contractors (ultimately, people working for FaceBook). Secondly, are you no longer using Google products or services like Android phones, Motorola, Google Maps, YouTube, etc.? I ask because Google did the same thing like a year ago.

blasting

MelSharples said:

Is it ok to check eggheadforum 20 times a day?

I get the impression that most on this forum have their own deal, or at least don't get paid by the hour.

Sea2Ski

GATraveller said:

I'm proud to say I have never had a Facebook page.  

Me either.  But I think we may be the only two.  Hell, even dogs have FB pages!  

Ironic that this came up.  2 weeks ago I gave direction to our infrastructure team to lock out FB, Twitter, Pinterest, and Amazon to all who are below a certain level of management.  After silently and passively gathering metrics for Q1 2015, based on the analysis, the company should gain back about 7400 hrs per quarter. And this is the tip of the iceberg as to what else may be locked down.   As for the members of mgmt who was spending more time on those sites... well.... They will be handled individually.  

Yea, this will be a never ending battle, but it will not hurt.  They will just use their phones, but not the company's bandwidth. It is going to be interesting how company culture is going to shift once implemented.  

shucker

Sea2Ski said:

GATraveller said:

I'm proud to say I have never had a Facebook page.  

Me either.  But I think we may be the only two.  Hell, even dogs have FB pages!  

Ironic that this came up.  2 weeks ago I gave direction to our infrastructure team to lock out FB, Twitter, Pinterest, and Amazon to all who are below a certain level of management.  After silently and passively gathering metrics for Q1 2015, based on the analysis, the company should gain back about 7400 hrs per quarter. And this is the tip of the iceberg as to what else may be locked down.   As for the members of mgmt who was spending more time on those sites... well.... They will be handled individually.  

Yea, this will be a never ending battle, but it will not hurt.  They will just use their phones, but not the company's bandwidth. It is going to be interesting how company culture is going to shift once implemented.  

Count me with you guys,  no Facebook for me either

lousubcap

Another who has never had a Faceplant account

Fred19Flintstone

Watch out @Mickey !  Don't anger the Zuckerberg!  Your OT threads are controversial.  The .380 thread got sunk.

Mickey

Fred19Flintstone said:

Watch out @Mickey !  Don't anger the Zuckerberg!  Your OT threads are controversial.  The .380 thread got sunk.

Just to page 8

bo31210

Helmet said:

So, I have two questions for @Mickey
First off, where are you seeing that Facebook is doing that? I haven't seen a single mention of them making this mandatory for people doing business with them. As far as I've seen this is only for their vendors and contractors (ultimately, people working for FaceBook). Secondly, are you no longer using Google products or services like Android phones, Motorola, Google Maps, YouTube, etc.? I ask because Google did the same thing like a year ago.

He saw it on FB     Has to be true bahahahahahahahahahha  JK

DMW

Here's a link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-hikes-contractual-workers-wage-193507677.html

stlcharcoal

blasting said:

I agree with all that, but then I'd agree with anybody who is bailing on facebook or twitter.

Nothing has hurt American business more that Facebook and Twitter.  When did it become ok for an employee to check their Facebook page 20 times a day while being paid by their boss?  No wonder America is losing ground in the world economy.

I would go a step further and say it's destroyed society or social interaction.  How many people no longer communicate personally with someone.  They post what they ate for dinner or something else no one cares about, then post something important and expect the world to know.

Sometimes when I run into people and they'll say, "why didn't you come to the party?" or "did you know I had a baby?"  Answer, No.  They get a scrunch up their face and say, "Well I put it on Facebook, you need to friend me."  No.....I don't think so.....You need to be a good friend and communicate like one.  I shouldn't have to communicate with you through some ad-ridden, tracked, and limited gateway.  I'm not inaccessible or adverse to important info delivered electronically, I just don't have time to sort through pages and pages of pointless drivel every day. 

I have the business page and that's it--never had a personal page, never will.  Like them or not, it generates business for me (for free) and some customers like it to see what's going on via that interface......same goes with Twitter.  But I don't host my entire site or force my customers to use it because it's easy for me.  Customers can get a hold us through multiple gateways, but they'll only get a response for a few.  I really like to call people back as it's old school and more personable, but the conversations are never short and there are only so many hours in a day.  Email is the next best, and is better organized and to keep track of.

Good luck deleting that page.  Facebook owns everything you ever put on there.  They will keep it archived and on file because most people come back to them.  Plus, there are many companies that archive everything on Facebook daily, hourly, etc.  How many posts or tweets only are up for a minute, but you see them on the nightly news with a big OOPS! 

Ok, gotta get back to work.....rant over.

cazzy

DMW said:

Here's a link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-hikes-contractual-workers-wage-193507677.html

Don't see a damn thing wrong with that...all in favor of it actually.

Seeing how it only affects what happens in their house, maybe Mickey in his old saggy balled age, misread it.  I'm personlly pretty thankful that I can still count on Mickey to like my FB posts!!   

Mickey

cazzy said:

DMW said:

Here's a link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-hikes-contractual-workers-wage-193507677.html

Don't see a damn thing wrong with that...all in favor of it actually.

Seeing how it only affects what happens in their house, maybe Mickey in his old saggy balled age, misread it.  I'm personlly pretty thankful that I can still count on Mickey to like my FB posts!!   

The part about "vendors" is what got me hot. That and $15 entry pay. That catches on and goverment welfare will have to be raised to catch up. Just a matter of time. Your correct about my saggy balled age my friend. 

GATraveller

Sea2Ski said:

GATraveller said:

I'm proud to say I have never had a Facebook page.  

Me either.  But I think we may be the only two.  Hell, even dogs have FB pages!  

Ironic that this came up.  2 weeks ago I gave direction to our infrastructure team to lock out FB, Twitter, Pinterest, and Amazon to all who are below a certain level of management.  After silently and passively gathering metrics for Q1 2015, based on the analysis, the company should gain back about 7400 hrs per quarter. And this is the tip of the iceberg as to what else may be locked down.   As for the members of mgmt who was spending more time on those sites... well.... They will be handled individually.  

Yea, this will be a never ending battle, but it will not hurt.  They will just use their phones, but not the company's bandwidth. It is going to be interesting how company culture is going to shift once implemented.  

I spend most of my day behind a computer trying to track down people who don't want to be found and it never ceases to amaze me how many I find through their social media accounts.  

tarheelmatt

I'm losing Mickey so I sent a request to be cazzy's friend. 

cazzy

Mickey said:

cazzy said:

DMW said:

Here's a link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-hikes-contractual-workers-wage-193507677.html

Don't see a damn thing wrong with that...all in favor of it actually.

Seeing how it only affects what happens in their house, maybe Mickey in his old saggy balled age, misread it.  I'm personlly pretty thankful that I can still count on Mickey to like my FB posts!!   

The part about "vendors" is what got me hot. That and $15 entry pay. That catches on and goverment welfare will have to be raised to catch up. Just a matter of time. Your correct about my saggy balled age my friend. 

Yes....but those are just vendors that have employees working at FB supporting their staff...likely "physically" working harder and normally getting screwed with unfair wages.

GATraveller

Can employees of Facebook access their Facebook accounts at work?   

cazzy

GATraveller said:

Can employees of Facebook access their Facebook accounts at work?   

No, just Twitter and Instagram.

Acn

cazzy said:

GATraveller said:

Can employees of Facebook access their Facebook accounts at work?   

No, just Twitter and Instagram.

And MySpace I think.

Legume

stlcharcoal said:

They post what they ate for dinner

Ok, this made me laugh.  Good one.

WeberWho

I've never joined that garbage.  If someone wants to know something about me that bad I have a cell phone.  Call me

DMW

cazzy said:

DMW said:

Here's a link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-hikes-contractual-workers-wage-193507677.html

Don't see a damn thing wrong with that...all in favor of it actually.

Seeing how it only affects what happens in their house, maybe Mickey in his old saggy balled age, misread it.  I'm personlly pretty thankful that I can still count on Mickey to like my FB posts!!   

I just report the facts, let the viewers decide.  

stlcharcoal

Legume said:

stlcharcoal said:

They post what they ate for dinner

Ok, this made me laugh.  Good one.

LOL.  Glad somebody picked up on that.

Point being, you come here because you want to see that.  You don't blast it out to 500+ of your friends because you think it's important for them to look at.

The ONE thing I will give Facebook credit for, and wholeheartedly thank them for......they almost completely eliminated the eff'ing never ending chain of email forwards.  How many of those did I get every day that was "FWD:Fwd:FWD:fwd:FWD: YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!!!!"  Delete, deleted, delete.  Then your buddy would get made because you didn't read the joke or the story.  So glad that practice is over with.  It's just a matter of time before the Facebook fades as well......happened to every other company that tried to contain their members (AOL, Myspace, etc.)