College Bans Social Networks Because It Clogs Their Network

For three months now, Middle Georgia College has blocked students from using Facebook and MySpace, two popular social networking sites, in academic buildings across campus. That's because students were using library and lab computers to look up their friends' latest relationship status or interests while other students waited to do academic work, said Mary Ellen Wilson, vice president for academic affairs and chair of the Academic Council, which requested the blocking. "It had gotten to be such a problem in our library and our academic support center and our academic computer labs around campus," Wilson said. "It was just preventing students from doing their academic work." Read more at:
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