Time and again we hear people emphasize the importance of social networking in achieving new contacts thereby leading to success in their jobs. But in reality this is only the excuse the new generation recruits and employees give for wasting both their and the company’s valuable time and assets.
As an example we can go to any of the firms and just log on the the internet and check the computers history, we will find Social Networking Sites like Facebook, Orkut, Myspace etc and either the home page or most visited site. This itself proves the lack of commitment of the employees to their job and is reflected in poor overall or decrease in the level of efficiency of most firms. Only comment that can be passed on this case is that , this is NOT a necessary evil that can’t be avoided, and this evil must be overcome if the companies want to earn more profit and be more successful.
No facts presented in this written commentary, only speculation without a basis. This discredits the information and is only opinion based upon generalizations without foundation.
The greatest danger presented by the social networking organizations is in communicating malicious codes from the sites to mainframes and hard drives as well as compromising data stored on the computers/mainframes. People can be quite trusting and at times blinded to the potential security risks they are taking with their information.
I am sure that there are ‘abusers’ of computer access priveledges online while at the workplace. It may be even a large percentage. I believe this is the reason monitoring software has been developed. In smaller settings this may not be a practical purchase but I do believe it is in business management’s description to monitor staff and correct problems.
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