Facebook - Do you love it or hate it? Do you build your your social life around it? Is it just a bit distracting during the working / studying day?
There are literally millions of us who can’t help ourselves updating and posting when we should be doing something else at work or school. Help is at hand for those responsible for keeping us on the productive straight and narrow - with a couple of clicks they can help us break our addiction - at least when we’re supposed to be doing something else.
The office and classroom ‘No Facebook Here’ notices can be finally torn up and consigned to the recycling bin. The outright ban on school and organisation networks of our much loved (in most corners anyway) online playground can at last be repealed.
The clever bods at Smoothwall have engineered a way to make Facebook ‘read only’ - you can look but you can’t click - so you can keep an eye on your wall but not post anything. Except obviously, when your boss says it’s OK - at lunchtimes, before and after your work hours, in the rec room etc. It’s sort of a techie way of creating detente - the higher-ups get you to do what you need to be doing - and you don’t feel as cheesed off as you did when they banned it outright.
What’ll they think of next?
