Posted by Doug Lacombe

Credit: HowStuffWorks.com

This week I was speaking to a potential client who said their IT department was resisting use of Facebook for marketing purposes (and blocking it via the firewall) because, horror of horrors, there was a phishing scam going around.

This snoozy bit of non-news is classic fear-mongering by the IT “wizards in the dungeon,” a real red herring argument to scare the marketing department off the social web.

Here’s what Facebook security had to say on their blog … continued on TheStarPhoenix.com