Johncom bans Facebook
And I quote…
Due to issues in the past with internet bandwidth and usage, IT installed Microsoft ISA servers to monitor all web related traffic originating internally. The ISA servers then produce reports to management to show statistics on web usage on a monthly basis.
These reports generated shows amongst other stats, sites most frequently visited and also duration of visits. A statistic that came up very strongly for almost every business unit showed that social websites are in the top 3 most popular sites visited. It further indicated that considerable time during the day and internet bandwidth were being spent browsing these websites.
Due to this considerable amount of internet bandwidth & time being spent on a daily basis to non-work related websites, the decision was made to block access to these “social websites”.
These will include “facebook”, “u-tube” (sic) and also “myspace” for now.
More on this in a column I’m writing for Thursday…
