OS X Leopard :: Block Facebook On My Computer?
We have babysitters who use our computer and we want to block Facebook and other social networking programs (chat rooms, etc) from being used. How can I set up my computer so that they can't access Facebook and chat rooms? (We do NOT want to block their use of the computer totally because the babysitters are great otherwise and it's very hard to find folks like them in our area.) We have the Intel based iMac running Leopard.
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