Facebook the Most Dangerous Social Tool For Businesses

wiredmikey writes "According to a recent study Facebook is by far the most popular and most dangerous social media tool among small-to-medium-sized businesses, with 69 percent of respondents reporting that they have active accounts with this site, followed by Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Facebook is also the top culprit for malware infections and privacy violations, e.g. the leaking of sensitive company information. YouTube took the second spot for malware infection, while Twitter contributed to a significant number of privacy violations. For companies suffering financial losses from employee privacy violations, Facebook was again cited as the most common social media site where these losses occurred, followed by Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn."

Hmm..

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh my lord... there's MALWARE on Facebook?? I thought all those links for free iPads were real! Noooooo!!!

This shouldn't surprise anyone, really.

Oh well

[Locke2005]

Sadly, slashdot remains last on both the list of sites from which to contract malware infections and the list of sites on which to meet people from which to contract an STD.

Re:Youtube?

[Zero__Kelvin]

"How do you get infected with malware from youtube?"

You start by running Windows ;-)

Re:Oh well

[drcheap]

Linux users - Immune to STDs

Immune, or just avoided by the attack vectors?

Re:Slashdot in 2010

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Almost all of the last 20 or so stories have been about either social networking sites or Google and its products. Man, I remember when programming topics actually used to make it to the front page. You know, news for nerds.

What's especially amazing is that Slashdot covers so many stories about popular sites that require having friends!

Re:"Dangerous" is ambiguous

[mp3LM]

*nix machines are effectively immune to viruses.

Just a note for anyone reading these comments - the parents statement is made up and not true.

Thank you for your time.

Re:"Dangerous" in the hands of HR

[drinkypoo]

the real problem is that most HR people are not worth the CHON they're made of. Unfortunately this is a real side-effect of our willing to leave people issues to others who we feel will do them better. well they might be more comfortable making decisions with the lives of others, but that's usually because they're a sociopath.