Why the Pentagon Doesn’t Want to Friend You

So! The Pentagon’s new “ open-door ” policy on social networking is, oh, around five days old. How’s that working out? The results of our totally unscientific reader survey are in. Commenter “C2dude” said: “Called the IT help desk yesterday, and they hadn’t even heard of the new memorandum from the DOD … I had to forward it to them.” A reader with U.S. European Command wrote in to complain: “EUCOM is still blocking access to Facebook and Twitter.” An airman working with the Army in Haiti commented: “We have total access to GMail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. It’s pretty good because I can be in practically full contact with family at home while at the work station. My main issue is being friends on FB with my superintendent. He knows now that I am not working.

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Why the Pentagon Doesn’t Want to Friend You