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Domain blocking: Blocking Facebook?

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    • CommentAuthormetronil
    • CommentTimeDec 3rd 2008
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    After blocking facebook ive recieved many complaints, mainly from younger women, in our company.

    The excuse i get is that they can use facebook as a tool to look clients up...

    Im not buying this.

    Are there any statistics for how many opendns customers are actually blocking facebook. A google search reveals only garbage data and mostly complaining about facebook being blocked at work.
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    • CommentAuthorKing
    • CommentTimeDec 3rd 2008 edited
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    I would guess most people who have a business here are blocking it.

    I work at a bank...it is blocked.
    I service computers at H&R Block...it is blocked there too.
    I service computers at Acadiana Diesel...it is blocked there too.

    No one has specifically complained about Facebook or Myspace, but there have been complaints about other sites.

    Basically you develop a "Internet Acceptable Use Policy" that everyone must sign off on when starting. Inform them that they will be restricted because

    1. Wasting time on non-work related sites is like stealing from the company. Also is grounds for termination.

    2. Our network is only as secure as the weakest link. Websites need to be filtered to protect our systems.


    Any site that is blocked and they "have a legitimate use for it", they must adequately demonstrate the "acceptible" use in your presence, and even then you will have the final say on if it will be unblocked. That is...after investigating other sites that might fulfill this "legitimate request". Depending on your work environment...if that person has their own supervisor...you should have a form that documents this exception to the filter and have their supervisor sign off on it.
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      CommentAuthormiked
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2008
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    metronil,

    We issued a press release back in march [1] that highlighted the most frequently blocked sites by users of OpenDNS, and Facebook was second only to MySpace.

    I hope this helps.

    1. http://www.opendns.com/about/announcements/79/
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    • CommentAuthorjwise
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2008
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    I have just started blocking facebook mainly because of a worm that is going through it. So far no one has complained.. but its only been a few hours :-)
    • CommentAuthorpetsku
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2008
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    @jwise, I am afraid to say this but if you guys block FB just for that, you might as well ban all Net access.

    Malware is all around you online, compromised sites can be anywhere, social engineering attempts can strike from any innocent site, need I go on? :)
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    Cant see the need for social networking sites for when you are working, my company account will not let me and only lets me do work stuff on it, when I get home I use them. As for using FB for checking clients, will have to remember that yarn for trying to get access to other sites at work :)
    • CommentAuthorfilly
    • CommentTimeDec 21st 2008
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    I don't want it blocked and added it twice to my white list and it's still blocked
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeDec 21st 2008
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    Any message coming back during blocking, e.g. why it is blocked?
    • CommentAuthorudargis
    • CommentTimeDec 22nd 2008
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    I am on a home computer, and I could use facebook this morning, but now it is blocked? Any advice on how to get it unblocked, as I sure didn't
    t do it, and don't understand why it is!
    Thanks
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeDec 22nd 2008
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    And again: Any message coming back during blocking, e.g. why it is blocked?
    We cannot help without details.
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