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>On that particular aspect: all Facebook employees (and I believe interns) when they write on Messenger to other employees have an on-screen reminder that their conversations are considered work product and can be monitored or reviewed.

Were they limiting themselves to the internal tools? I got the impression they could have used personal FB accounts.

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Hearsay from folks I know at FB - you use your personal account at work. There's no work account/personal account split.

That would be consistent with everything I've seen from them as a developer. One of the most common recurring requests on the Facebook Developers Facebook Group is when someone has all of their privileges for app development on the FB API revoked because Facebook found they were using a second "company account" or "developer account" for managing their app. Facebook sees those as "fake accounts" which are prohibited under their policy/TOS. You get only one account for anything personal or business-related, and doing otherwise risks having everything thrown into the black hole of "everything has been revoked, and no human will tell me why or how to fix it"

This seems insane, how is a large company that has any sort of employee churn supposed to maintain something on Facebook? Your inevitably chasing former employees to get access to stuff your company built for the platform...

The idea is that you don't link your company stuff to an individual user account with a single username/password that gets shared - you link your company stuff to a Page, and list multiple people with their own accounts as Page admins

Sounds like a great way for 1 angry employee to hijack a Facebook page.

This is incorrect, employees have a workplace account for work.

To clarify, it used to be the case that you used your personal account for work, but facebook now uses their enterprise "workplace" version of facebook internally. The accounts are still linked, but silo-ed in such a way that you can't use them interchangeably.

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