Time wasting techniques

The week before, the most popular social networking sites were banned in office - you were not allowed to access them - facebook and orkut and for some reason , gmail!! The next step apparently is to ban chat - no gtalk, no messenger, no yahoo talk!
I just don't comprehend why the necessity to do this? One of the reasons given - not through official sources - is that uploading of photos etc on to these sites - takes up bandwidth for the internet slowing down other critical processes. This point I cede but the ridiculous notion that this distracts people from work, I find ridiculous. If you don't want to work, nothing is going to make you and If you want to, nothing is going to stop you. This is like living in a police state and not trying to find out the solution but just implementing short term solutions for what is seen as the problem. Personally, I think that if people are not working, then there is a deeper issue - firstly with the management, then the profile, and lastly if nothing else is working then the person's work ethic. and I certainly don't think banning sites is addressing any of these issues.

Also a point to note, I don't think that facebook is the only thing that people can do on the net - all I know is since the facebook ban - I have discovered more interesting blogs and the time to really dig deep into the blogs I already read. I have also rediscovered tickle but it no longer holds the fascination it did. Zapak is a good gaming site and after bubble shooter I have discovered arctic quest - a version of bejeweled and jigsaw puzzle.

And if all these don't work, Dude, I have a phone! All those calls you never seem to get around to making, nows the time!