Facebook at Work or School

Thought this was very clever of one of my students.  As in most schools social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are blocked.  However one of my eighth graders was able to figure out that if he changed his facebook account settings at home to only use HTTPS ( a secured site ) to access facebook he could:

1. Login to a school computer
2. Google Facebook
3. Select Login from the sitemap
4. The secured https://www.facebook.com will show up in the address bar
5. Circumnavigating our web blocking software
6. Sign into facebook
7. Update his status

I am by no means advocating this or encouraging this behavior and will report this to my administration.  However I did think it was clever of this student to think outside the box and problem solve.

To turn on secured browsing on facebook

1. Log into your account
2. Go to Account Settings
3. Security
4. Secure Browsing
5. Check the box
6. Save Changes