City of Toronto disconnects workers from Facebook

Following in the footsteps of Queen's Park and Parliament Hill, the City of Toronto has banned its employees from using the social networking site Facebook on work computers.

Starting Wednesday, the city's 23,000 employees could no longer log onto the popular website.

Politicians, however, are exempt from the ban because they use Facebook to communicate with their constituents, said city spokesman Brad Ross.

Ross said there's no sign that city employees have been wasting time on the site, "but to mitigate that possibility, we just simply denied access."