Social networks can be used to waste time, and members have also been known to encounter a virus or two. Now, decision makers at Apple and the Maryland General Assembly seem to feel these problems outweigh the positives, as new bans on the two most popular social networks have been reported.
On the corporate front, Facebook essentially caught up with MySpace; display Macs at Apple stores have been unable to connect to the latter site since May of 2007. According to
Facebook reps could consider this ban a sort of backwards compliment, then. The political situation looks less good. Maryland's citizens must consider whether their lawmakers have been goofing off while the country's economy was collapsing. And, even if the politicians were using the social networks to distribute information and listen to constituents, they were dumb enough to also download malware.
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