BBC sends employees on course to learn how to use Facebook, Twitter, MySpace
I don’t know about you but I didn’t have any problem starting an account on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or any of the other inordinate number of social networking sites available on the Web. So why did the BBC feel the need to send its employees on a course teaching them how to do so?
According to the Daily Mail, many of the BBC’s 23,000-strong workforce have been sent on a Making The Web Work For You course designed to teach them how to use the Internet more effectively, part of which details how to create and manage an account on various social networking sites.
The BBC does not employ dummies, so why is this necessary? If the dregs of society can have Facebook accounts, and fill them with updates full of spelling mistakes, bad grammar, and text spk, then I’m sure employees of the esteemed BBC can also manage to do so. Without the need for a course which costs around £50 ($80) per person.
One employee is quoted as saying:
We’re meant to be belt-tightening. It is an astonishing waste of money. Teenagers who can barely read or write have managed to teach themselves.
Those of you outside the U.K. may wonder what the fuss is; if a company wants to waste money then that’s up to them. But the BBC is a publicly-funded organization, with each and every household in Britain having to contribute to its running costs. So a frivolous waste of money such as this is a big deal.
Maybe I should request a partial refund of my license fee.
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