More Companies Blocking Social Networking Sites

Scansafe, a web security solutions provider, reports a trend among its business clients: That more of them are deciding to block social networking websites.

If you examine this report, productivity is sited numerous times as the main reason to block employee access to sites.

Some other reasons Scansafe reports for this finding is that many social networking sites have malware, and pornography associated with them.

According to Scansafe, these are categories their customers are choosing to block:

76% social networking
75% weapons
64% alcohol
58% webmail
52% online shopping
51% sports
47% online banking

This only affirms what I've know for a long time in Internet marketing. As a business, you really do have to be very careful about using social networking properties to promote your business. You have to choose your social networking applications carefully. You can't take the quantity approach of trying them all and seeing what sticks. Your business brand is too valuable.

If it's true that major companies are sensing that frequenting social networking sites lead to unproductive behavior, and it's also true that social networks like twitter are still struggling to monetize their business models, then it's my opinion we should slow down on our mad rush onto the bandwagon of social networking for commercial purposes.

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