News Story The Facebook Army? How the US military embraced socia...

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sat, 01/23/2010 - 17:41

The US military is apparently making good use of a secure Facebook-like system for networking which already has hundreds of user groups and thousands of members.

Known as "milBook" the system has been embraced by the Department of Defense for the way it can open up safer avenues of communications amongst personnel.

Previously, the department lacked a medium for employees to share official and sometimes sensitive information. MilBook provides several options for users who wish to share information with specific...


 

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