Some people where I work have started signing themselves up for Yammer accounts. If you haven't seen Yammer it is rather like a sort of group blog and twitter which enables you to send short text messages telling colleagues what you are doing. So far I haven't been overly impressed. Comments consisting of "Working on presentations for awayday" or "Been dealing with software issues and emails all morning" aren't uncommon. Some people are using it rather like a forum. I'm left wondering what is wrong with a forum. But then I don't like twitter and am not even that keen on Facebook; although this last does bring people from all round the world together which has to be a good thing.

What do you think?  To test my theory that age old forums are better than Yammer and twitter you can write what you like on a bulletin board at http://www.googlingyou.com/smf/. It would be good if someone expressed some opinion or other, especially if you have strong feelings about privacy.