How to Block MySpace, Block Facebook and Block Bebo - use TerminatorX
It is no good trying to block Myspace and Facebook unless you also block MySpace and Facebook proxy sites - TerminatorX does this.
As well as blocking MySpace, blocking Bebo and blocking Facebook, TerminatorX v2 can also block chat applications including web-based chat, Block YouTube, block proxy sites and anonymous surfing, block Yahoo Messenger, block MSN Messenger, block Web Messengers, block LimeWire, block gambling sites - there are over 220 choices available.
*** Also blocks proxy sites ***
You can see out who is trying to use MySpace, Bebo, Faccebook or anything else that you have chosen to ban. TerminatorX Monitor (a free add-on to TerminatorX) lists any programs or web sites that have been shut down. These are shown on a computer located anywhere on your network - for example an Administrator's workstation. The details are shown in 'real time' as the attempts are made. This screenshot shows a typical view:
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TerminatorX also has tickbox selections for:
43 Things, 8hands, AsianAve, Bebo, BlackPlanet, Broadcaster, Capazoo, CarDomain, Care2, ClassMates, Dada, Digg (video sharing), eCRUSH, eSPIN, Facebook, Facebox, Faceparty, Flickr, Flirtomatic, Flixter (photo sharing), Fotki, Fotolog, FreeCycle, Friends Reunited, Friendster, Gaia Online, Grono.net, GuildCafe, Habbo, Hi5, Hyves.net, iLike, Imeem, iWiW, Last.fm, LiveJournal, LunarStorm, Meetup.com, MiGente, Multiply, MySpace, MyYearBook, Netlog, Nexopia, Orkut, OtherEgo.com, Passado, PeopleAgregator.com, PerfSpot, Photobucket (photo sharing), Piczo, Platial, ProfileFly, ProfileLinker, Realbuzz, RockYou (photo sharing), Skyrock and Skyblog, Slide (photo sharing), SoundPedia, Stickam, StudiVZ, StumbleUpon, Tabber, Tagged, TagWorld, Tribe.net, Upcoming (Yahoo), Vox.net, WAYN, Webjam, Windows Live Spaces, Xanga, Yahoo! 360, Zoolit
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Why block MySpace and block Facebook?
Myspace, Facebook and Bebo allow children to contact people over the internet. They make 'friends' with people that they can not be sure are genuine and that can lead to problems. MySpace, Facebook and Bebo also encourage people (including children) to put photographs and other details about themselves into the system. It may well be an innocent if time-wasting exercise, but as the people who contact them are not 'vetted', it is not something that a parent should allow.
Use TerminatorX to block MySpace and block Facebook. Then if your children try to use the sites, they disappear from the screen.
Be safe rather than sorry. Myspace is the most popular social networking site worldwide, with Facebook second. An article on the BBC news site has said that consumer watchdogs have 'unearthed pornographic images, evidence of bullying and inappropriate adverts' on social networking sites such as Bebo and MySpace.Quotes from the Wikipedia entry for MySpace are:
- 'Many schools and public libraries in the US and the UK have begun to restrict access to MySpace because it has become "such a haven for student gossip and malicious comments"'
- 'There are also cases of adults using MySpace to find, meet, and stalk young teenagers'
- 'MySpace has been criticised by the media due to some members posting nude or indecent pictures of themselves...'
MySpace and Facebook, like many good ideas, if used properly be a useful social network - and for all but a few rare cases it is. However, it seems that the very small minority are again spoiling it for the rest.
TerminatorX also blocks Proxy sites which bypass network filters in schools and offices, allowing students and employees to surf without any restrictions.
Should I block MySpace, Facebook and Bebo in our company?
MySpace, Facebook and Bebo will not present the same danger for adults that they can hold for children. However, they are just chat programs so blocking MySpace, blocking Facebook and blocking Bebo will stop your employees wasting their work time chatting to new 'acquaintances'.
