No, Apple Did NOT Ban Facebook

Rumors seem to be running rampant today that Apple had banned Facebook at their U.S. retail stores.

Users, however, report that they can still access Facebook at Apple stores in Washington D.C. and Palo Alto.  Stores in Richmond, VA and in L.A., however, are unable to access Facebook at this time, so the rumor may be at least partially true.

This is probably being done on a store-by-store basis or regionally, but there doesn’t appear to be an official "ban" in place.

MySpace was banned in May of 2007 from all 251 Apple stores, in an effort to prevent loitering and internet cafe use of in-store computers, so it’s very well possible that other social networking services will be banned in the future too. Apple reports that their retail stores see an average of 2 million visitors weekly.

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