Bosses ‘should embrace Facebook’ and Facebook improves social skills

Two stories from the BBC which provide an interesting perspective on social networking.

• BBC NEWS | Business | Bosses ‘should embrace Facebook’

Some comments taken from the article.

Banning Facebook and the like goes against the grain of how people want to interact

Peter Bradwell
Demos

By focusing the minds of a group of people on a specific task, you can find a solution much more quickly than you would do otherwise

Mark Turrell
Imaginatik

There is also an article about a cambridge university study showing that it can improve social skills

• Facebook ‘improves social skills’