Facebook Banned in Schools by large Companies - Old News?

I find it interesting that, just a little while ago, there was a giant cry of outrage from many people I know, saying that the ban in certain schools across the province, heck, the continent, against Facebook.com is a bad idea.
Now, I understand both sides of the argument; the schools that say that Facebook isn't schoolwork, and that it's a distraction that can lead to cyber-bullying. Yes, this can be true, but there's also the student's side, which says that that Facebook is an innocent networking tool, and that taking students off the site by blocking it will inhibit them somehow. Either with communicating with people in different continents, or to work on the newest science project with your partner.
It's funny, because it's not usually the schools that control which sites are allowed and which aren't: there are companies hired with the specific purpose of finding the sites that may be "hazardous" to students. So, if one company blocks Facebook, then the entire censor network they run will block it.
Recently, in the Ontario Provincial government, the minister of Government Services, condoned the blocking of Facebook, and it joined the ranks of sites such as YouTube, and many online gambling games.
"[...]"The Internet website that you have requested has been deemed unacceptable for use for government business purposes," the warning reads.
Facebook joins YouTube, online poker gambling websites and hardcore sex sites as verboten in any provincial government office across Ontario, said Government Services Minister Gerry Phillips.
But similar rival MySpace is still accessible to provincial government employees at work.
Facebook is prohibited from being used on computers in some – but not all – federal departments in Ottawa but the provincial ban affects every Ontario ministry. [...]"

Excerpt, The Toronto Star, May 03, 2007, "Facebook banned for Ontario staffers" by Robert Benzie.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/210014

Then, I ask this question; I heard a lot about this issue a while ago, then, well, it basically dissipated. I haven't heard anything really about this as of late. So, is the issue getting old? Maybe. But I still think that, if students really think Facebook helps at school, then we should push to have it allowed again.

TV series Review: Firerfly

Please note that this is the first one of these I'm doing, so please tell me what I've done wrong.

Firefly. Before I saw the series, this name meant nothing to me. Ok, it was a bug, and I'd heard about a television series that had a huge following a while back, ets... Taking advice from the Escape Pod forum, I bought the series on DVD. I found out why "wow" does this series an injustice.
A combination of everything on earth - China, America, Western, Sci-fi, Wit, Serious moments, Comedy, Drama, Love, and everything else a succesful series needs. There was only two things missing then; money, and the huge fan base there is now. Since the days that Firefly was taken off the tube, not even finishing a concrete season, a gigantic fan base has developped. So much so, a movie was made two years ago.
Not bad, for a series that didn't last a year. Anyway, there's a sort of charm about television series that don't live very long... Something that allows them to live in the hearts of people in every continent, everywhere.
On a very interesting note, all the swearing in Firefly is in Cantanese: a direct translation in english of some of the words, and the network ( I think, NBC), would have thrown the show out by it's hair. Nevertheless, it's intersting to hear the languages mixed together in a way that goes to say that every normal, streetworthy person can speak Cantanese and English in the show's world. Heck, the show's universe.

I strongly recommend this show to anyone 16+, who likes Sci-Fi and/or westerns.

9/10

Theory: Absence Makes the Heart grow fonder / Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Some people say that this is true. Personally, I think that once someone is out of sight, one of two things happens (saying that 1 is one person, and 2 is the other):

• 1 begins to think about 2, and thinks of all the good times, making their memory in essence, "grow", becoming greater than life. The heart grow fonder in this way.
  
• 1 doesn't really think of the person much, but from time to time, they do see something that triggers the memory of the person in question, still making them remember, though they don't dwell on it. This doesn't really make the person more important to 1. 2 is just same old 2, no different than he/she was X years ago...
• Going back to the first of the three theories presented that I believe in on this subject, I believe the following is the most interesting. After some time, 1 forgets the little things about 2, and, being the person who does dwell on these things, 1 begins to worry about, let's say, 2's eye colour. Then, because he thinks of 2 so much, the first theory comes into place, and 2 becomes more larger-than-life.

I think that's, kinda interesting, all the same. Also, it seems obvious that I believe the opposite for "Out of Sight, out of Mind".

I'll try to post more frequently in the future.