Only works if your working for a very small company. Any employer large enough to have an IT department will be able to track your browsing habits. Simple solution: Use work computers for work, Facebook can wait.

What if it's a Mac?

Uh... those programs used for tracking workers' online activity don't run at the workers' desktop computers. Your office's computers (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) are at an Intranet that's behind a firewall. All connections to the Internet must necessarily pass through the firewall. The firewall offers a lot of services for the Intranet: - Firewalling to permit or deny access to network services considered harmful. - DHCP for assigning network numbers to each computer - NAT so that each computer can connect from the inside to the outside. - A proxy that caches frequently accessed web pages and tracks what websites are being accessed by whom. - Usually, computers from the outside can't connect to the computers at the Intranet. Port forwarding allows certain connections from the outside to the inside. - etc.

Facebook is the worst! It's turning the world into cyber-zombies!! It ruins friendships and relationships.. And now it's causing people to lose their jobs! In all seriousness, OP should have known better. The workplace is NOT the place to be on Facebook!

^ I disagree. It's not facebook itself that ruins relationships, gets people fired, etc. It's the people on there that choose to create drama, and idiots like op that decide to use the company computer to update his status because he couldn't wait a couple hours to do it. Facebook is cool, but it'll only get better if people moderated their use of it. Just my opinion.

32- it's how people use Facebook, and people's reaction to Facebook. Did op really waste valuable time by checking Facebook? Maybe not, but companies nowadays want you to be constantly working, which actually lowers productivity. We aren't supposed to be performing menial, repetitive tasks over and over throughout the day. It's exhaustive and there's a severe lack of stimulation. I allow people to distract themselves while in lab, as long as they get the work done and don't abuse it, I don't really care.

It's not invasion of privacy if the employee (OP) left his facebook account logged in on a WORK COMPUTER. You have no expectation of privacy on computers owned by the company, therefore, no invasion of privacy. If the cops came in to your cubicle to search it your boss can give them the go ahead, because you don't own your cubicle, the boss does. Same with lockers at public schools if the principal gives the go ahead (not sure about private schools, though I would assume it's the same.)

Invasion of privacy? It was the work computer. There is no privacy when it comes to property that the company owns.

On top of what they said, companies can keep logs or even screen watch from another computer to keep things in check. No privacy what so ever...

Mmmmmm.... I wanted to thumb down your comment and then I realized you used the word "asshat".......... Thumbs up! I completely disagree with you though.

Maybe op was on lunch break...