Banning Facebook

Two articles jumped out at me today about people banning Facebook. Apple stores have banned it to keep people from coming in off the streets to just check their Facebook status, and the Maryland State legislative offices have banned it for security reasons.

Facebook has joined the list of annoying social network sites that sysadmins most enjoy banning since they take up so much productivity time on network resources and utilize so much bandwidth.  Facebook has not been associated with as many malware outbreaks as MySpace has, but it is so ubiquitous that it makes a good target for malware authors.