Facebook as an Intranet Part 2: More Reasons NOT To Select Use Facebook As An Intranet

Sean R. Nicholson

The launch of the popular Social Network movie coupled with Facebook’s recent enhancements to their Groups functionality has fueled the requests for my opinion as to whether Facebook is becoming a viable platform for an organizational Intranet. I’ll be writing a blog post this weekend detailing the technical/functional reasons that Facebook still isn’t a good choice, but in the meantime I wanted to share this funny video pointing out that many employees just don’t take Facebook seriously.

One of the most difficult hurdles for any Intranet to overcome is adoption and if your employees don’t take the Intranet and the content that it hosts seriously, then adoption will never follow. So, in light of that….is this how your employees feel about Facebook?

I’m not saying that Facebook will never be a suitable platform, it’s just not ready right now.

Be sure to check out the other articles in this Facebook as an Intranet series:

Facebook As A Company Intranet Is A Nightmare Waiting To Happen

Facebook as an Intranet Part 3: 10 More Reasons Not To Consider Facebook For Your Intranet Platform