I don’t actually use many Facebook applications – I use a few for my company’s fan page, but I can imagine there’d be some dodgy apps that you definitely wouldn’t want accessed in the workplace.

I agree in training people to spot spyware. Not many organisations run solid anti-virus / anti-spyware applications which should be compulsory for all businesses.

And agreed again. Traditional law/policy making just doesn’t work with Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is a consumer movement that governments won’t (and shouldn’t) be able to get in the way of.

There is a growing number of links within many of the “applications” available in social networking which try and inject Spyware and Malware into the users machine. At a corporate level this Spyware can have dramatic effects on the whole network.

I am more in favour of users being trained in spotting signs of spyware, rather than trying to lock everyone down.

Prohibition of any sort will only cause an underground movement, which is far harder to guard against.

http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/02/digital-trends-to-watch-for-2009.html

Given those stats – Its amazing to think there is a workforce out there that is deprived of tools such as Twitter, FB etc.