More social networking

A really interesting issue that is beginning to hit the headlines, and will continue to as social networking becomes more pervasive, is the use of social networking during work hours. My theory on it all and a message I would pass on to all those network managers packetshaping, websensing and monitoring all the traffic is to just relax! Is it really a big deal if someone nips into facebook for a  few minutes, an hour or a even blows off the whole day? In reality who is it that has to deal with the lack of productivity of that individual? Well first of all if the employee has a regular job's worth of work, then they are going to have to pull in some late nights and long hours to make up for blowing the time off. If they don't then their supervisor should be taking note of the lack of productivity and questioning the employee. As a very last resort, if for example we are talking about a very well protected union worker who is doing nothing and the supervisor has no authority to make that person do the work, THEN it might be suitable to get the IT department to track that employees surfing habits. But this whole big brother thing just puts people into the mindset of trying to dodge THE MAN....the evil empire called the IT department. This is not the image we are trying to project. When did the IT department become the cops for peoples work habits? Just because the technology allows them to do it, it doesn't mean they have to. They need due diligence, and maybe the logs to allow them to go back, but it's not something I believe they should be actively monitoring and taking action on. But then and again, this is my "we are all one big happy family side" talking.