Is Facebook blocked at your workplace?

[Moliere]

I've been given a project at my company to do some research on social media (facebook, twitter, etc.) and as a starter I'm wondering how many people actually have access to Facebook from their work computer at their work location.

Facebook is blocked for me, or at least it was until I was given this project, but for everyone else at the company it is blocked.

[Pheidippides]

Blocked for all but the lawyers.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I work for a government-ish agency and Facebook is blocked in policy, but not in software. Despite having it mentioned several times a year on how we're subject to Open Information requests, most of my coworkers use Facebook daily. I have it open at this very moment.

I personally don't see the issue with it. I don't spend a lot of my time on Facebook but do have it open a fair amount. If the organization decided to block it, with the prevalence of smart phones, I really don't think that it would be improving productivity.

Public Outreach is a significant portion of my job and I've requested several times to use social media more in promoting our project, but haven't gotten much sign off from upper management.

[Moliere]

I personally don't see the issue with it. I don't spend a lot of my time on Facebook but do have it open a fair amount. If the organization decided to block it, with the prevalence of smart phones, I really don't think that it would be improving productivity.

This was pretty much the same argument we made and it looks like we'll all have access soon. If people want to waste time, they will find ways to do that. We are just giving managers the responsibility to manage their teams better instead of relying on web filtering to do it. It'll be interesting to see what happens, but I imagine most employees will still get their work done, and those that don't will move on.

Public Outreach is a significant portion of my job and I've requested several times to use social media more in promoting our project, but haven't gotten much sign off from upper management.

We are moving this way and it's actually the HR department that is pushing it and upper management seems on board. I'm wondering if some of the companies around here actually use FB externally or internally.

I really interested in what works in business as far as internal/externally using FB, twitter, etc. I've visited some FB sites that are alive and kicking (Vivint) and some that are just dead.

[Clark Addison]

Blocked here. I don't miss it. We block a ton of stuff. Twitter is blocked, which only bugs me because people link to it a lot. Pretty much all blogs are blocked. Wikipedia was blocked until about a year ago, then they started letting it through.

I found out a few days ago that CougarGuard is also blocked, but CUF and CB are not.

[cougjunkie]

I think the majority of people access twitter and facebook via smartphone as opposed to CPU.

[wuapinmon]

If it were blocked at my work, it would make my job far more difficult.

[MarkGrace]

No. But I also don't have a Facebook account so I never really get on there.

[WashingtonCoug]

We use Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter a fair amount for our work. It's a free way to advertise and keep customers up to date on our work.

[Drunk Tank]

Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, anything that requires Flash, anything with a word decribing guns, porn, nudity, etc... Lockdown.

There is however an non regulated wifi source for "contractors" to use. Most people have the password.