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Check Facebook at Work with Spreadsheet Cheat
Hardlywork.in lets you check Facebook with a page that looks like an Excel spreadsheet.
Updated: Wednesday, 06 Jul 2011, 9:50 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 06 Jul 2011, 9:50 AM EDT
(EndPlay Staff Reports) - Tired of getting caught perusing Facebook while at work?
Help is here for all you social media sluggards.
Thanks to the website hardlywork.in , you can ingeniously convert your Facebook newsfeed into a page that looks a lot like an Excel spreadsheet. That's right – appear productive while checking out who's coming to your party this weekend.
The website explained its product this way: "Long hours at the new summer job? Feeling unprofessional when you check your Facebook profile at the office? Well there's nothing more professional than a nice spreadsheet. Sign in with Facebook below, and see your news feed rendered into an innocuous corporate form."
To access the program, go to the site and give it access to your Facebook account. Hardlywork.in then populates a spreadsheet with your Facebook newsfeed.
The program was developed by Bay Gross, 20, a Yale University computer science major. Gross said the idea came to him after a friend doing a government internship told him that she couldn't read links he shared on Facebook while at work.
The Huffington Post reported that Gross spent about 15 hours developing the site.
"No eye-catching logos, sound effects, or chat windows will mar your appearance of diligent productivity," wrote Kay Saunders in a review in Lifehacker.com . "You will be able to browse your photo albums, so be careful as pictures can be eye-catching to that work busybody that always seems to be walking by your cubicle."
To add further protection, you can activate a "Bosskey" (the space bar) that acts as an emergency kill switch. This handy tool kicks you immediately into a more real-looking spreadsheet for those times when you need to look legitimately busy in a hurry, reported Lifehacker.com.
Hardlywork.in lets you check Facebook with a page that looks like an Excel spreadsheet.
Updated: Wednesday, 06 Jul 2011, 9:50 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 06 Jul 2011, 9:50 AM EDT
(EndPlay Staff Reports) - Tired of getting caught perusing Facebook while at work?
Help is here for all you social media sluggards.
Thanks to the website hardlywork.in , you can ingeniously convert your Facebook newsfeed into a page that looks a lot like an Excel spreadsheet. That's right – appear productive while checking out who's coming to your party this weekend.
The website explained its product this way: "Long hours at the new summer job? Feeling unprofessional when you check your Facebook profile at the office? Well there's nothing more professional than a nice spreadsheet. Sign in with Facebook below, and see your news feed rendered into an innocuous corporate form."
To access the program, go to the site and give it access to your Facebook account. Hardlywork.in then populates a spreadsheet with your Facebook newsfeed.
The program was developed by Bay Gross, 20, a Yale University computer science major. Gross said the idea came to him after a friend doing a government internship told him that she couldn't read links he shared on Facebook while at work.
The Huffington Post reported that Gross spent about 15 hours developing the site.
"No eye-catching logos, sound effects, or chat windows will mar your appearance of diligent productivity," wrote Kay Saunders in a review in Lifehacker.com . "You will be able to browse your photo albums, so be careful as pictures can be eye-catching to that work busybody that always seems to be walking by your cubicle."
To add further protection, you can activate a "Bosskey" (the space bar) that acts as an emergency kill switch. This handy tool kicks you immediately into a more real-looking spreadsheet for those times when you need to look legitimately busy in a hurry, reported Lifehacker.com.
A lot of people don't use spreadsheets though.