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Facebook in the college

  • 08-04-2010 7:28pm
    #1
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭


    Not complaining about it being blocked or anything, it makes sense, but is there like a window of use for it? Because I've been able to access the site the odd time on college computers but not at others. It seems a tad harsh that I can't access the site at 8pm in the middle of the Easter holidays. I'm confident I'll survive but :pac:


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  • #2
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    Basically the ban is on some PCs and not others, mainly because of how ineffectual Computer Services are.


  • #3
    Simarillion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭Simarillion


    As far as I know, it also depends on the number of IP addresses in use at the time. SO if you're in the library and only two of the computers are being used, then it is sometimes available


  • #4
    PomBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭PomBear


    Use the IT computers Fionn


  • #5
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    Computer services have a bulletin up about it but it says that facebook is only blocked from 9am to 5pm in the college suites til june 4th


  • #6
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    PomBear wrote: »
    Use the IT computers Fionn
    I was, AFAIK
    whiteman19 wrote: »
    Computer services have a bulletin up about it but it says that facebook is only blocked from 9am to 5pm in the college suites til june 4th
    What timezone are they using then...


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  • #7
    Pinturicchio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭Pinturicchio


    Fionn MacCool wrote: »
    I was, AFAIK
    It's not blocked at all on the IT computers but you need an IT account.


  • #8
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Pinturicchio wrote: »
    It's not blocked at all on the IT computers but you need an IT account.
    I was using an IT account, in one of those open access rooms at the back of the IT building, ground floor.


  • #9
    syncosised
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭syncosised


    The IT computers in this case are those in IT101 and IT102, not IT106 where you login using your normal username and password.


  • #10
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Ah I see. Didn't realise IT students did a module in "pissing around on Facebook".


  • #11
    PomBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭PomBear


    Fionn MacCool wrote: »
    Ah I see. Didn't realise IT students did a module in "pissing around on Facebook".

    What do you think we do?:D


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  • #12
    po0k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    loveissucide wrote: »
    Basically the ban is on some PCs and not others, mainly because of how ineffectual Computer Services are.

    Or perhaps it's due to different departments having different requirements?
    Some might not mind it being available in the evenings, some might not want it at all.
    Ie. 1st Arts muppets filling IT or Physics labs when folk doing those courses need the machines and software packages to crunch numbers for assignments?

    And if it's blocked, that's pretty effective in my book. Wan teh squid.

    Anyone making a case that Stalkbook has real academic merit is delusional.
    The fact it is accessible at all is because too many gits would whinge about 'censorship' and 'freedom'.
    ....just like Bebo a few years back - which is now facing the axe because 12 year olds don't have credit cards or click on banner ads.


  • #13
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    po0k wrote: »
    too many gits would whinge about 'censorship' and 'freedom'.
    The cheek of 'em!


  • #14
    djfitzerjnr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭djfitzerjnr


    po0k wrote: »
    Anyone making a case that Stalkbook has real academic merit is delusional.


    you wanna take that back? I have actually done research projects on Facebook for two different modules in two different years.

    Oh, and its not blocked in the Cairnes for this reason


  • #15
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    Fionn MacCool wrote: »
    Ah I see. Didn't realise IT students did a module in "pissing around on Facebook".

    It's part of the Next Generation Technologies module, of course!


  • #16
    mellowinmycello
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12 ✭mellowinmycello


    facebook is banned from 9am to 6pm monday to friday (including holidays)...you can get onto it using proxy websites tho.. ;)


  • #17
    po0k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Fionn MacCool wrote: »
    The cheek of 'em!

    Well, yeah - when it's in the context of the primary purpose of limited resources being disadvantaged by a substantial group of people's sometimes excessive use for social and personal reasons.
    The fact it it is blocked during the core work hours where there are higher demands and competition for resources is confirmation of this.
    It's not like you are unable to access facebook by other means.
    Mobile operators are starting to do decent-ish data plans, and €1-2 get's you a seat in one of the netcafés around town.
    Would you go into the city library and update your facebook page while there was a queue of people behind you waiting to use it for looking up the book catalog?


  • #18
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Zapho


    mellowinmycello wrote: »
    facebook is banned from 9am to 6pm monday to friday (including holidays)...you can get onto it using proxy websites tho.. ;)

    There's a number of campus wide proxies that don't block it either ;)

    I totally agree with it being blocked on campus computers. There's no sense in having students tie up computers when other students have a genuine need for them. Although, there is the counter-agrument of censorship etc. I think having the 9-5 ban is a decent enough way to tackle this, but wouldn't it be better to just ban it for LAN access? If students want to waste time on their own laptops on the wifi, who cares?


  • #19
    mellowinmycello
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12 ✭mellowinmycello


    Zapho wrote: »
    There's a number of campus wide proxies that don't block it either ;)

    I totally agree with it being blocked on campus computers. There's no sense in having students tie up computers when other students have a genuine need for them. Although, there is the counter-agrument of censorship etc. I think having the 9-5 ban is a decent enough way to tackle this, but wouldn't it be better to just ban it for LAN access? If students want to waste time on their own laptops on the wifi, who cares?
    aaah but they can't just block facebook altogether. fair play to them for doing it during the busy hours like (the lack of horrendously long queuing is great now). but if they banned it altogether it wouldnt really be fair. i mean, my friend doesnt have a laptop, so facebook in the library is the only way of her getting onto fb!


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