Can I block facebook email, but allow other features?
I want to block my users from using facebook's email but allow access to facebook.
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Facebook e-mail? Didn't know that this exists at all. What they offer like this is not really e-mail in the classical sense. It's just an application within their services.
Well, as usual, if this e-mail looking feature is hosted on a dedicated domain, you can block that domain. You only can block or allow domains with a DNS service. A DNS service doesn't know about e-mail and such.
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So it turns out that if Facebook is enabled on a device in the home, and the child emails or posts any URL they want, the stupid Facebook browser opens it right up, just by the child clicking on it. Foud this out with my son's iPad. Ugh. And Facebook allows children down to age 13 to have accounts!
Is it possible to prevent kids from open web pages from inside the Facebook browser with OpenDNS, without blocking their access to Facebook entirely?? THis is a market gap someone needs to fill! $$$
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I say it again, a DNS service can block domains only, as the name says. A DNS service cannot know about pages, mail, protocols, images, ports, links and other such objects. DNS is the phone book of the internet, not the phone lines or phone calls.
There's a lot of software around which you must install locally where you can achieve with what you want. The market gap does not exist and is more than filled. But an online service (like OpenDNS or any other) can't do this.
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Facebook allows children down to age 13 to have accounts
That's a parenting issue, not a Facebook issue
Is it possible to prevent kids from open web pages from inside the Facebook
OpenDNS filters will block access to filtered sites. So if your son clicks a weblink withing Facebook, OpenDNS is involved. Of course if you son uses the iPad on an external network/hotspot, your OpenDNS settings are not used.
OpenDNS offers "protection" not "prevention". Never confuse the two.
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