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April 28, 2006, 01:23 PM ET
Facebook Turns to the (Corporate) World
Facebook, the social-networking site of choice for countless college students, now hopes to fill the same role in corporate America: The Web site has opened its doors to employees at a handful of well-known companies.
Workers at Apple, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, among other workplaces, will now be able to create profiles -- and digitally "poke" each other -- on the network. And if Facebook's corporate strategy is anything like its collegiate one, it's likely that employees at many more businesses will gain access to the site in the coming months.
Justin Smith of Inside Facebook -- yes, a blog devoted to news about the site -- says Facebook will work to keep its corporate clientele separate from its college users: "As long as Facebook stays safe for students, expanding into the corporate world should not adversely affect their dominance in the college and high-school markets."
But it seems given that Facebook's corporate foray will make college career counselors uneasy that unscrupulous employers might use the site to dig for dirt on students who have applied for jobs. (Inside Facebook)
Categories: Company-Watch, Student-Life
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