New Ways to Goof Off at Work

As we've discussed, Facebook is becoming more common at work. And in many ways this is a good thing as people increase their social network ties.

However, Facebook isn't all "networking" as you well know. There are tons of applications on there and some of them are really catching on. Superpoke was the first one to get attention, and make the creators freaky rich. Now Scrabulous is getting a lot of attention---with 700,000 players a day!!! Personally, I love Scrabulous but have to limit myself to one move a day or it eats into work time. (OK, I *try* to limit myself).

The issues I see with Scrabulous is that we really don't know when technology is going to take off, we just can see when it has. We have a poor ability to predict the future. Second, who knew it would become such an active game/problem for employees! That's well beyond the educational group. Finally, how are traditional media supposed to deal with Facebook applications? Should the Hasbro shut down the site for copyright infringement? Or should they try to tap into the $25,000 A MONTH the game is bringing in. I, like one of the people in the story, actually bought a Scrabble game for my husband and me to play at home.

Your thoughts??