Banning social media at work is silly (like Footloose)

Banning social media at work is like the town in the movie Footloose banning dancing, according to SearchEngineWatch ’s Erik Qualman. Yeah, it’s a strange analogy, but Qualman still makes an interesting point about social media bans in the workplace. “Just as we now look back on Footloose as being rather silly, the same will probably apply to these social media bans,” he wrote. (For the record Footloose is not silly — it is awesome.)

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