Apple store to ban Facebook squatters?
Facebook junkies without iPhones may be experiencing a “status update fail” now that Apple has added the infamous Facebook to its list of banned websites at some retail locations nationwide.

The ban on Facebook squatters has been in affect for about a week according to one Apple store consultant. Macheads from Seattle, Austin and Thousand Oaks, CA confirmed the horror to be true from stores visited in those cities.
“Apple Stores have become a regular Internet Cafe, so placing the most popular time-killer [Facebook] of them all on the banned-list will certainly help everyone get a chance to test out the computers”, an Apple store Genius told several sites.
Roughly 16 million Apple store visitors per month could be “Face-blocked”, unable to update their status from Apple base camps. Apple operates 251 stores worldwide, with an average of 15,744 visitors per store, per week. Customer access to MySpace was banned from all Apple stores back in May of 2007.
Twitter may be added next to Apple’s supposed black list, according to some rumors.
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My research documents reports of the Koobface worm infecting (or attempting to infect) workplace-related computers by way of Facebook. Employers/organizations thus have security as a reason to block social network sites. http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/security-threat-facebook-and-myspace-at-work/ –Ben