Manfully facing up to the impending absence of Facebook
It will surprise no one that Outsider is not “on” Facebook. He is definitely on what most would know as “Wrinkly Facebook” aka LinkedIn, but he has never thought that Facebook was the right forum for a gentleman of his stature.
What is more, Outsider has vivid memories of having espied over the shoulder of one very much former employee a comment being typed into Facebook stating “I’m bored” prompting Outsider to suggest politely that perhaps her boredom could be alleviated by doing her ^$*&^*^ job – old style management techniques still have their place.
It should go without saying, then, that neither Outsider nor Money Management give a toss about the news that Facebook will not be including news on its site because it doesn’t believe it should have to pay publishers for the privilege of doing so.
Now, because Outsider is not a member of Facebook and has no friends he can safely say he won’t notice whatever changes the social media platform puts in place and he suspects that most readers of Money Management aren’t actually using Facebook as a business resource and will similarly not feel deprived.
To those Money Management readers who do access Outsider’s content via Facebook he has two words: Bye Bye.
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